Today I came to back to my previous ''teaching system''. I must use a
lot of quotation marks in that case... First class started with a quite an
interesting topic for an Anthropology lover, actually... Nothing less than
UNESCO and its actions towards overturning culture as heritage of humanity.
I was wondering myself about the immaterial culture -which stands for gastronomy and oral traditions, for instance. My wonders came with the assumption of ''and how about if the creator of such culture want to change it, or ''evolve'' it?'' I know that those actions exist with the best motivation behind: basically in order to protect those traditions that globalization processes does not wipe the new traditions through disembodying process, otherwise it would lost its roots. Thus UNESCO and IPHAN make an effort in order to preserve those traditions of immaterial culture.
The thing is- as I was saying- and how about if they do want to change it themselves. The problem I see with the whole protection aspect is that the original founders of those traditions might feel coerced to make their traditions as a ''heritage of humanity''. See how heavy it is? They may feel directly or indirectly the social pressure to keep the traditions, and because of whom? Because of the humanity...
I still need to figure out whether the UNESCO has authorization from the owners of those traditions or not... otherwise, I perceive their actions as extremely imperialistic, even if they say that it overturning immaterial culture is for the good.
I can still remember when I asked this question to the teacher and he could barely let me finish my sentence... he was explaining over and over again what immaterial culture was as I had missed his point... He was so used to be a teacher and throw informations over and over his students... It is okay... That was not his fault... the system pays him to act like that.
Moreover, I had 3 math classes, one literature and another one physics. I will not deny that I was really excited about the literature one! Have been a long time that I did not listen about Machado de Assis and talk about his works was just so pleasant.
Math and Physics and me... well we never get along very well... so, I am okay with it.
Overall, I miss a lot all the interaction of the classes I had at UWC. I miss the critical engagement of the students. I miss we discussing what was up in the newspapers because it was relevant for life, not because if might be at the Enem* or whatsoever.
I started to repeat mentally while the time trickled down the clock ''I can not wait to go university, I can not wait to go university, to have freedom to study and develop academic research, and love so much my thesis and intellectual journeys''
''Breath Thaíza, breath! This is just transitory. You won’t be here forever. This is just like purgatory, you got to go somewhere else in the end- and hopefully will be heaven''.
I know that I might be quite ungrateful in my analysis... I am actually very glad by the opportunity that the school gave me to prepare.
The thing that really sucks is the system. My sadness and dissatisfaction are with the system. I dream with university now because I want to discover more stuff, I want to develop my ideas, I want to research, I want to listen to other points of view and breath the atmosphere of constructive- alive debates all over the place.
Here is a cloister. I am not satisfied because the people I see wanting to go to university was never with the enthusiasm that they will find education and all this ideological atmosphere there. I think they might be very surprised when they get there and be really into it. I am optimistic enough to believe that will happen in fact.
But sadness lays in the fact that they don't know how exciting can be to go to Uni because of ideological debates, freedom of speech and so one, therefore, they are really satisfied with this mechanic-passive-indoctrination that happens in what they call ''education''. I am sad that the system does not allow us to be more than that and to aim things that goes beyond this mechanism...
Today I was sad about education in Brazil. Not because we do not have good public education, or motivated teachers or any other status quo critiques of education that exists... I am sad because the school I am in now is a referential of a great school where I live and that's how it works.
Well... I think now what remains is that I gotta dream very very much for the glorious day in which I will see me in the list of approved people to Uni.
I was wondering myself about the immaterial culture -which stands for gastronomy and oral traditions, for instance. My wonders came with the assumption of ''and how about if the creator of such culture want to change it, or ''evolve'' it?'' I know that those actions exist with the best motivation behind: basically in order to protect those traditions that globalization processes does not wipe the new traditions through disembodying process, otherwise it would lost its roots. Thus UNESCO and IPHAN make an effort in order to preserve those traditions of immaterial culture.
The thing is- as I was saying- and how about if they do want to change it themselves. The problem I see with the whole protection aspect is that the original founders of those traditions might feel coerced to make their traditions as a ''heritage of humanity''. See how heavy it is? They may feel directly or indirectly the social pressure to keep the traditions, and because of whom? Because of the humanity...
I still need to figure out whether the UNESCO has authorization from the owners of those traditions or not... otherwise, I perceive their actions as extremely imperialistic, even if they say that it overturning immaterial culture is for the good.
I can still remember when I asked this question to the teacher and he could barely let me finish my sentence... he was explaining over and over again what immaterial culture was as I had missed his point... He was so used to be a teacher and throw informations over and over his students... It is okay... That was not his fault... the system pays him to act like that.
Moreover, I had 3 math classes, one literature and another one physics. I will not deny that I was really excited about the literature one! Have been a long time that I did not listen about Machado de Assis and talk about his works was just so pleasant.
Math and Physics and me... well we never get along very well... so, I am okay with it.
Overall, I miss a lot all the interaction of the classes I had at UWC. I miss the critical engagement of the students. I miss we discussing what was up in the newspapers because it was relevant for life, not because if might be at the Enem* or whatsoever.
I started to repeat mentally while the time trickled down the clock ''I can not wait to go university, I can not wait to go university, to have freedom to study and develop academic research, and love so much my thesis and intellectual journeys''
''Breath Thaíza, breath! This is just transitory. You won’t be here forever. This is just like purgatory, you got to go somewhere else in the end- and hopefully will be heaven''.
I know that I might be quite ungrateful in my analysis... I am actually very glad by the opportunity that the school gave me to prepare.
The thing that really sucks is the system. My sadness and dissatisfaction are with the system. I dream with university now because I want to discover more stuff, I want to develop my ideas, I want to research, I want to listen to other points of view and breath the atmosphere of constructive- alive debates all over the place.
Here is a cloister. I am not satisfied because the people I see wanting to go to university was never with the enthusiasm that they will find education and all this ideological atmosphere there. I think they might be very surprised when they get there and be really into it. I am optimistic enough to believe that will happen in fact.
But sadness lays in the fact that they don't know how exciting can be to go to Uni because of ideological debates, freedom of speech and so one, therefore, they are really satisfied with this mechanic-passive-indoctrination that happens in what they call ''education''. I am sad that the system does not allow us to be more than that and to aim things that goes beyond this mechanism...
Today I was sad about education in Brazil. Not because we do not have good public education, or motivated teachers or any other status quo critiques of education that exists... I am sad because the school I am in now is a referential of a great school where I live and that's how it works.
Well... I think now what remains is that I gotta dream very very much for the glorious day in which I will see me in the list of approved people to Uni.
*Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio: National Exam to get into universities in Brazil
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário