Innovation is one of the
challenges that the School has to learn. Sometimes, I’ve seen that the oldest
teachers don’t let to the newest to show new ideas, and when this happen they
are doing a mistake.
Innovation always is a
positive step that in education we have to do, sometimes can be good until
sometimes the “innovation idea” that we propose can finish bad. But in the
moment that we see that something is going bad, we can change and reformulate
the innovation way to work.
That’s why we have to
let to the new people that enter to work to a new job, that they explain their
own ideas because the mix of the experience voice and the new ideas can do a
good innovation in the centre. On the other hand, if the professionals work
with innovation, the kids are going to work also with the innovation.
I’ve seen a lot of
projects of “Design for change” and from different countries, but I choose on
from Mexico, where they work about to recycle. I think that is a great idea
that they work this topic because in Catalonia we were the first in Spain that
we worked the recycle movement, and they started to show to the kids how to
recycle and the kids showed to the families and now, is not normal to find anyone
that doesn’t do this action. Now in all Spain, everybody recycles, but it was a
hard process that I remember that it started when I was 7 years.
We know that we are the
models for the kids, but in the same way if one kid says to us that we are
doing the things bad, we are going to feel wrong with our self-image. Is important to thing and observe in which way
the kids arrive to search a solution for something that they feel that works
bad in their planet...so let’s go to let them to teach to the adults!
Chose a subject from the brainstorm - KISS
(Keep It Small and Simple)
We choose food as our theme. It should be
a collaboration project with another country.
Brainstorm on Food:
We choose to make a project about food
customs.
· Theme,
why did you chose it:
We have chosen this subject because it
gives the teachers possibilities to do different things with the students,
cook, and presentations. We believe that it is a good thing to teach the
students about cultural differences through things they already know, such as
food. We believe that the students will learn about differences by comparing
their eating habits with their classmates and the students from the other
country.
· Goals/What
should the students learn:
The students will learn about different
customs/habits and rules about food in other countries. This will
also teach them about cultural differences. This will prepare the students for
a global/multicultural world and make them more prepared if they visit other
countries. How to get information from others.
· How
long should the project take?
You use few hours in a week to establish
contact with the other country/school. Where the students get learn about their
customs and exchange information about food.
After a few weeks when you have all the
information you need about the other country’s customs and food, the class
begins to make the project in a week.
· How
to evaluate the project?
We would make the students to make a
presentation of what they have been doing in the project week. After the
presentations they could make a class discussion where they compare the other
country’s customs with their own.
The last August, before arrived to Denmark, I travelled
with my friends to a rural house in the middle of the mountain. One of my best
friends present us his new girlfriend, from Russia. We had to live in the same
house for one week, and we know that she was very different than the other
girls of the group.
Other friend that is also a Social Educator and
me, we were the only that respected her way of life. That’s why
I asked to her some questions about her style of life, her traditions. In the
other hand, she made the same to us. She tried to make me to change my idea of
live, and I explained to her that I choose this style of live, where I only
believe in my actions and in my responsibility and she didn’t understand. I
explained that I respect when someone believes in God or other beliefs, but I
like that them respect me why I choose this option.
I have to say, that in the same week, we let to
her to cook typical food from her country and play some games that for us where
very strange, and we made the same for her. I think that it was a way to
respect her and us.
We have to think that the culture shock is typical
when the multiculturalism appears, and we have to control this shock with the
tolerance. That’s why I think that here, the Social Educators and the Teachers
has a very important paper, where we need to be tolerance for then show to be
tolerance to the others. For me is very hard when I see someone working in this
job that doesn’t be tolerant.
So what I want to say with this video is just
that we have to respect and be open-mind and respect all the genders,
religious, psychology status, the precedence
of the person… we have to think that everyone has a different background that
makes to be different from each other. But the tolerance is only possible if
the Human Rights are respected, so if we see any attitude that doesn’t respect
it, it’s impossible to be tolerance.
The mediation is one of the resources
that one Social Educator can use for work the tolerance, but we need that the
conflict appeared can be mediated from the both parts that are implicated. In this way, we are going
to avoid that the problem grow or appear other time.
For this we also need a democratic
participation, for make sure that everyone can express the own opinion with absolutely
freedom, and knowing that everyone that is listening is going to respect him. But without forget that we are in a globalized
society and we need to work this not only with the kids, if not with all the
society that are near to us.
The last day in the classroom, we made a lot of activities
for work the Identity. At first, I didn’t think that it was for work that, but
then with the reflection I could see a lot of things that helped me to
understand better.
For example, on a same picture like that for one
person can explain a different end of a story, and for me it can be very different.
Why it happens? It happens, because each person has different lived moments. Yeah,
we are from the Earth, it’s ok, but we are from different parts from this
Earth, with different cultures, ways of live, ways of think…
The identity of the person, starts to construct since
the person is a child. Every moment in the lives of everyone is important, is
not the same to have a great infancy that have a bad infancy. This kind of
things, makes your personality stronger or maybe carefully with some items.
Inside a classroom, we have to respect all the identities from all the pupils,
we have to understand the back up that they lived, and if there are something
that for ours is so strange, we need to talk clearly with the kid. He has to
know, that the Teachers or the Social Educators are for help him, and the only
option that we have, when the kid not has the identity clear is just listen him
and make an observation.
One activity that I thought was to learn to say “hello”
in the different modes that we can do. For example, in Spain, when we meet a
new person, we make two kisses at the
face, and here in Denmark is just take the hand. Both are from Europe and we
thing that are similar cultures, and we can find this difference and it’s only
to say “hello”. So…inside a classroom we can work this kind of activity showing
the difference around the world.
For example "The Butterfly Circus" is one little film that can show
that we create our identity it depends where we live, with who we live…
The live of the protagonist is constructed at first,
but then the Circus Director helps to him to see the reality in another
perspective. That’s why he change his mind, and his way of live and at the end,
his identity. For me, this is one of the wonderful videos that I’ve seen in my
live.
Other film that is very important is “Babies film” a French
documentalthat
follows four humans through their first year after birth. Two of the babies
featured in the film are from rural areas and we can see the differences
behind them but on the other hand, there are a lot of similitude during the
first years of live.
That's why something that is strange for us, maybe is usual for others, and we have to respect every moment and every thought. An other film very important is “It all starts today”
it’s also a French film, that can show us that the problems with the not
integration for the problems about our identities can be a problem in the
future. That’s why, inside the schools and the Socials services we have to pay
attention to all this signals, for no arrive to late to find a great solution.
The next film Invictus, is a 2009 biographical sports
drama film starring by Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, where we can find that
two different cultures that are sharing
the same country, can find a solution for arrive to live with the same rights.
The last one is “Freedom writers diary”. A young teacher inspires her class of
at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education
beyond high school. At first there are a lot of laughing, but then is an
important material for every one of the students where finally they help to
each other.
The third part where I have to reflect
about:
“Globalization at the cultural level has brought about the
fragmentation and multiplication of identities and this may require,
paradoxically, a return to the familiar.(Cohen et al.)”
I’m totally agree, I’m
from Spain but I don’t respect the identity that now my country has, because
all the movement are around the politicians. I don’t the politicians of all the
world, but yes the Spanish politicians. In this way, my identity started to
broken 3 years ago, and the only thing that I use for make my identity are my
family and my friends, because they are the only that are near to my identity
and my live.
In this way, I hope you understand my
vision for work this blog, that is working with the elements that I learned in
the UCC and mix with the element that I learned in my Social Education Degree.
In the
2013 year, grow the life expectancy, we have more medicines for important
illness, we can met any place from all the world, speak with people and buy
products from faraway without go out from your home.
Most
of our welfare state is because we use this kind of advances in the life, but
the problem is that we have to guarantee to the next generations, that they are
going to enjoy this way of live, with the relation of the environment, with the
elements of the nature and other important aspects.
But
we have a very big problem, because we aren’t doing anything for
support the sustainability, and that’s why inside the schools, we have to teach
to everyone the importance of the sustainability. If you teach this to the
little pupils, then in the future you will see the results and we will enjoy
the ecological balance.
Is
important to explain the importance of make the things well, and teach to them
why is important to do this kind of things, if they want to have the same
objects in the future.
We need to teach looking for accept new
global challenges, because there are differences in the education behind the
development and the underdevelopment countries. The migratory movements, makes
that inside the development countries, the people that comes from
underdevelopment countries get excluded from the society, because the society
has been changed very quickly for the globalization movement. That’s why we
have to use the education for provoke the need of be critic with our actions
and thinking.
If you want to understand better what
means the sustainability and which things we have to do, just watch the next
video.
Globalization is a difficult topic for explain and
where you can be agree or not with them. With the Globalization is easier to
find a job, the economy grows, the Humans Rights are better, but on the other
hand, we can find that inside the Culture, the Globalization is not so good. We
have to think in the undeveloped cultures, that don’t have the same opportunities
like the developed cultures. For
example, the Latin-American Culture doesn’t have the same opportunity than the
Europe Culture, in this way with the Globalization we are making easy for
trigger the privatization, the competence, and attacks the environment.
Obviously, the Globalization has good things and bad
things for the Education world, that’s why, if we are going to be Social
Educators, Pedagogues or Teachers we have to respect one of the most important
things that the Globalization had done à The interculturalism and the multiculturalism. We have to think that for the interaction behind different cultures, we have to do working under the respect, with the same rights and welfare every culture with which we are working. In this way, we try to work together, respecting the difference, the dialog, the empathy... So let's go to find the good things that have the Globalization and use it for do better our jobs!
Alicia Hidalgo Haro International Course UCC- Blaagard/KDAS
Innovation always is a
positive step that in education we have to do, sometimes can be good until
sometimes the “innovation idea” that we propose can finish bad. But in the
moment that we see that something is going bad, we can change and reformulate
the innovation way to work. 
I’ve seen a lot of
projects of “Design for change” and from different countries, but I choose on
from Mexico, where they work about to recycle. I think that is a great idea
that they work this topic because in Catalonia we were the first in Spain that
we worked the recycle movement, and they started to show to the kids how to
recycle and the kids showed to the families and now, is not normal to find anyone
that doesn’t do this action. Now in all Spain, everybody recycles, but it was a
hard process that I remember that it started when I was 7 years. 
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