MEMOIRE MAFOUO RAISSA - L'ENS

ABSTRACT
The notion of cultural identity appears to some people as belonging to the same nation.
To others, it is the sharing of the same religion and/or the same defined social class. This
situation orchestrates at times the over use of the above view points and rejects that of alterity.
However, this hierarchisation is not unchangeable and this work is the way to make show it.
This is the reason why our choice is based toward the classes of form one where the student’s
enthusiasm can be positively canalized and oriented. The folktales taught in these classes are
by virtue of their status real and veritable cradles of cultural values which easily bind with our
objectives that is letting the learners know the different cultures among the social groups as
well as taking note of the common values and aspects. This initiative necessitates as a matter
of fact the elaboration of pedagogic forms while taking into account not only cultural aspects
contained in these folktales, but equally the relevant aspects of interculturality. Such studies
will permit learners to cultivate the notions of cosmopolitism and universalism in the fact that
there is an interconnection of network, a meeting platform among people who are of daily
realities. They would be able to identify themselves in the different types of folktales while
discovering new realities. The learners will draw lessons from here ranging from good
cultural, social and intellectual interest permitting them to have a new vision of cultural
identity.
Key words: cultural identity, alterity, hierarchisation, folktales, pedagogic forms,
interculturality, cosmopolitism, universalism, interconnection, learning.
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