WHAT IS THE THIRD WORLD, AND WHY ARE SOM COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WHILE OTHERS CLAIM TO BE DEVELOPED?
Marcus Balsev
First, in class we talked about the thought of Foucault. This has been a presentation by Marcus. In this philosophy is spoken of which are developing countries and what are the challenges of a Western teacher to work in developing countries.
In this topic, knowledge, language and culture are very important and determine the status of some countries and their societies. For Foucault this is very important because the language and its discourses organize the relationships of people in society.
Then, in our group, we had to discuss the book "Systema Natura" which label people according to their origin, meaning that in every continent all people are equal and very different from the others. In this book, Africans, Asians, Europeans and Americans have nothing in common.
I think this book is written in 1735, when the borders were very marked by wars, monarchies and regimes. I think now we all have a hybrid culture in which all the continents are blended, and we can find people of all races in any country and any culture. If a person characterizes other people for their continent I think that this is absurd because all people now living in the world without problems when traveling or living in another country if we want. And I think in the same continent as Europe, for example, we find people very different from each other. For example, I'm seeing the difference between the people of my country (Spain) and the Danish people. But I think this is very general, all people are different, but we did not mark a continent.
Macro development discourses
- Read the introduction to Escobar´s “Encountering Development”.
- Identify the three main discourses: The Truman discourse, the UN discourse, and the Escobar discourse) on development/developing countries. And list the main characteristics of the three discourses.
Harry Truman discourse: He announced his concept of a fair deal ( the world to solve the problems of the underdeveloped areas of the globe ).
The poverty is a handicap and threat both to them and to more prosperous areas.
We must make available to developing countries our modern scientific and our technical knowledge so they can improve because the greater production is the key to prospery.
Capital, science and technology were the main ingredients that would make one massive revolution possible.
United Nations discourse: his objective is designing concrete policies and measures for the economic development of underdeveloped countries.
old social institutions have to disintegrate and very few communities are willing to pay the full price of economic progress.
Arturo Escobar discourse: the discourse and strategy of development produced its opposite: massive underdevelopment and impoverishment, untold exploitation and oppression and the third world has been produced by the discourses and practices of development since their inception in the early post- world war II period.
Micro development discourses
- Identify the different power relations in the two Eritrean cases. Explain your choices and use the two Eritrean cases as point of departure for a discussion of the challenges for a teacher or social educator from the West who works in a developing country.
First case: Mohammed Seid Shemshef Elementary and Junior School.
- In class there is one big book and it is the teacher
- The teacher makes fun games with words in English for students to have fun and learn with letters and children are able to construct simple sentences in English
- But the downside of this school is that teachers support corporal punishment on students
I am a student of Pedagogy and I think I can say that the punishment in a school is not recommended, but is amoral and teachers have no right to physically punish a child because this is not a good way to educate. Education is to give a child culture, ways of being through dialogue and words.
A good teacher must is against abuse, and even more if parents trust this person to teach their children. In Spain it is reportable and a professor who stick to their students is expelled.
A good teacher must is against abuse, and even more if parents trust this person to teach their children. In Spain it is reportable and a professor who stick to their students is expelled.
Second case: Duta Elementary and Junior School.
- All students have a textbook but the teacher just repeat things that appear in the book and the students sleep because they are bored.
- There is enmity between local teachers and the Indians.
- There have been incidents where male Indian teachers have claimed sexual favours from female students in order to let them pass their exams.
One very important thing for a teacher is to create in students an interest in their subjects, to motivate their students. If a teacher is not able to do this, their classes will be unproductive and only be based on study without any interest.
On the other hand, conflicts between teachers may also impact on students, because of different ways to teach.
I think students always want to pass the subjects and sometimes try to do it with bad form, but this happens in every school in the world. Students know what they want and sometimes do not look properly. But now is when the teacher must demonstrate who is, his professionalism and behave as it should. The problem is when these bad profsor accepts proposals and loses its professionalism.
On the other hand, conflicts between teachers may also impact on students, because of different ways to teach.
I think students always want to pass the subjects and sometimes try to do it with bad form, but this happens in every school in the world. Students know what they want and sometimes do not look properly. But now is when the teacher must demonstrate who is, his professionalism and behave as it should. The problem is when these bad profsor accepts proposals and loses its professionalism.
WHAT IS THE THIRD WORLD, AND WHY ARE SOME COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WHILE OTHERS CLAIM TO BE DEELOPED?
I think that the third world is very relative, because it is not created in the overnight, I think the third world is created by developed countries to take advantage of them, with debts and a lot of falsehood.
Everyone wants to help these people, many countries speak and saying stupid things about it and then nobody does anything. These countries could move forward if people from other countries to help them take all they have, to know their raw materials.
Everyone wants to help these people, many countries speak and saying stupid things about it and then nobody does anything. These countries could move forward if people from other countries to help them take all they have, to know their raw materials.
The teachers of there (developing countries) should come away from developed countries to prepare their work, to see how we do things in other countries and then they can do the same in theirs, and they can learn new things. I think it's more important for them to come to our countries than we should go there and tell them what is right and what is wrong.
There are developing countries because without them the rest of developed countries would not, would have no country should be utilized.
In my opinion, all this topic is marked by the hypocrisy of the presidents of all countries, and one more time, education continues to being the foundation of all, to change their education and knowledge will know how to fight for what they have and we can use .
