While I was watching the video “Otra
snapshot de realidad” that Francisco sent us some days ago, I was thinking it
was necesary writing some words about it.
It is an amazing short which shows
the inequality between men and woman. Men can do whatever they want and they
can arrive at home when they want, while woman have to be always at home doing
home tasks. For men, their job is the most important thing and they think that
it is harder than things woman make. So, when men arrive at home, they want to
have the dinner at the table and if it isn´t prepared they argue with their
wifes. Sometimes most of men shout their woman and hit them although they say later
that they don´t beat them and that woman are crazy.
This short is quite similar to
“Virgen Negra” which we saw in assembly hall of University. Men could have a
lot of woman and children, but woman could only have a husband. Woman had to
have sex with her husband although they didn´t want because woman who had more
children was the most praised. Why can´t woman have more than one husband if we
are in the same conditions?
I think this is a good topic to
teach in our classrooms because children have to know, since they are childs,
that men and woman have to have the same values, conditions and oportunities.
Nowadays it´s horrible that some people think that both sexs are diferents, so
I think that we should work in it to avoid discrimination and to inculcate the
equality. What do you think?
(Lydia)
I totally agree with you Lydia. I think equality between men and women is something that children have to learn since the very early years. I think education is the only way to delete male chauvinism once for all.
ResponderEliminarBut there is a problem in it. Children may see in their homes that their mother is cooking all the time and their father is in the sofa watching tv. Furthermore, in our classrooms we are going to find children from different cultures. Some Moroccans parents, for example, teach their children what women have to do and what men have to do. So, the child is going to be confused and probably he will acquire his family values.
How we can change it? Many teachers in class separe the children taking into account their genre to do different activities. From my point of view this is a big mistake. Our students are going to be fathers and mothers, they are going to be a boss paying the same salary to their men and women employers, and also they are going to be these employers, they are going to be firewomen and male air hostesses. We have to teach to them that they can do all this because being man or woman doesn’t make people more intelligent or with special abilities. I think we can achieve it teaching using words but also using facts, for example, not to care if the responsible of the class is a boy or a girl or to encourage boys and girls to play with balls and jump ropes.
I totally agree with both of you girls. Since children are very young, they have to learn than women and men are exactly the same and that women have the same importance than men. It is a very important value buut they do not have to learn it just in school, but in their own families. Families have to contribute with this kind of values and have to encourage them in their houses because children learn by imitation. They will learn what they see.
ResponderEliminarI also consider very importante that children learn about the history of "gender equality". Nowadays, our country fights for genre equality but forty years ago, men were over women in all the aspects. Students will also have to know that in some other countries which have a different culture, women are not as men, they are worst considered.
As teachers, we alsohave to foment gender equality in class, mixing our students.
Of course it’s important that children learn that both men and women are human beings and, therefore, equal. Maybe we are not equal physically, because those are nature issues, but, we should have the same rights and opportunities in our life. Nowadays, in some cases, it’s not true, but, as we are going to educate future adults, the equally is something they also have to learn at school.
ResponderEliminarFrom my point of view, teachers have to start from the smallest details in class, for example, we have to treat all the students in the same way, to avoid as far as possible sexist activities or tales, to be careful with the language we use, to try to eliminate any kind of discrimination between students, etc. But, if the problem is in the family, then we have to check how they are structured and what conception they have about the matter.
So, as equality is really important but not real in our society, teachers have to work with families to develop positive attitudes in students, so that they are conscious of the problems with gender equality.
I think exactly the same as you, Lydia, Julia, Cristina and María. Unfortunately, we live in a world where there is no equality between men and women. But I think that it doesn’t exist in the poor countries (as we could see in the film at the University) nor in the developed nations. Although we believe that we think in a modern society.
ResponderEliminarWe cannot do anything to change the World, but we can (and must) do many things to change OUR WORLD. I mean, we have to work to develop equality between men and women at home, at school, at the University, etc. I believe that we, as teachers, have a great power because WE ARE GOING TO CREATE NEW PEOPLE. In our class there will be the future primer ministers that will govern our country, some children that will manage the most important companies and the future famous actors and actresses. Then, they will be children so; they will have to acquire new values and principle. And we will have to teach them!!!
I think that the teachers have to power to change the society and they have to develop equality, respect and confidence in the children. We should start today because the children of today will be grown-ups tomorrow. It’s time to turn human beings into people!!
I am totally agree with all of yours. We live in a society, in where it sais that the men and women are equal, but are a lot of things still to change, and this is in which our work should consist on.
ResponderEliminarWe have to eliminate the sexism and for that we have to avoid the "typical model" of the girls with pink and doll and the boys with blue and cars. But this is impossible until the media eliminate this type of advertisement.
Is terrible to hear a teacher saying that the education will be separate into all the girls in one class and the boys in other class, but I had heard it.
So to change it, we will foment the participation and relationship between girls and boys in our class, forming groups of girls and boys, teaching girls to play football for example.
We have to make aware our pupils that they can choose the favourite colour or toy, without the influence of the other people. Starting with this and with the collaboration of the families we can change a bite the minds of the little children.
I do not totally agree with you Lidia when you say all these differences between men and woman. It gets out of my nerves (in a calm way, please understand me) when people, and women above all, generalize that all men act in the same. I think this negative attitude you have posed it was more clear some years ago, but I belief that since some years ago, and I am not talking about a couple of them, this attitude predominated; but I am sure, that little by little this attitude is getting less and less followers each day. It makes me feel angry when it´s generalize that all men act in the same way. Jesus, I would say that nowadays (if we do not take into account old people) 2 of each 10 has this prehistoric mind.
ResponderEliminarHaving said that, obviosuly you can foresee which is my idea related with this theme. I have the same opinion as my fellows and I think that it´s very importat to erradicate little by little this idea from our society. So it´s obvious to say that we have to try to make our pupils and children conscious about that men and women have thee same rights. Maybe by reading or by role plays I do not really know honestly.
I have to say as well that in an indirect way children nowadays realise that men and women have the same rights, because home statues´are changing from the one in which men were supperior to women. But still I think is a good idea to make it clear these ideas in class as well.
I only can say one thing: It must change.
ResponderEliminarWe have to try to change it in schools. I think that it is the first step to start changing important things.