Critical Paper #2

Critical Topic #2.

Reflecting on the readings and my own personal feelings about globalization and the international community, it is my opinion that one of the most critical topics is that of maintaining a people’s culture, while still assimilating with each other and growing as a global community. There is no accounting for change, and rapid technological advancement is something that affects every group and socio-status in one way or another. In our own country, immigrants need to learn our ways of doing things, however because we are in effect a “melting pot” cultures can still be maintained through social groups.

There are many ways to teach students new things, without actually asking to give up everything they know through the generations. Internationally, with the onset of outside educators from the US being brought in to teach English as well as technological practice, it is vital that a sense of streamlining is established. It is not beneficial for a student to go through 12+ years of education, and in that time learning via 10+ different methods. Educators need to realize that students learn best when the courses are taught within an indigenous realm. I think that people learn best by taking what they are good at and the basic skills they have been taught all their lives and then stemming from that.

Another critical topic that I view as extremely important is that countries should not be afraid of change. This may seem paradoxical to my first argument above, but I think change can be enacted in a way that is still rooted in a countries culture and traditions. The world does need to globalize, and we cannot have poorer third world countries getting lost along the way (as many are already behind.) Government officials need to see the importance of giving all of its people the tools with which to prosper in the economic global market. That being said, technology needs to be available in all communities, and offered to all people no matter their economic status. I realize this is an extremely idealistic view on things, but governments need to allocate the funding for education, because a country can only be as strong as its weakest link.


Citation:

Boal, Augusto. The Aesthetics of the Oppressed. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.

Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: The Continuum Corporation, 1981. Print.

King, Kathleen. Bringing Transformative Learning To Life. Florida: Kreiger Publishing Company. 2005. Print.