Identity

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 documental that 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. 

Sustainability

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.

Can we use the Globalization for work better?

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