miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2008

We could make the choice, as the workers did to ask for their rights.


  • -By the way of introduction it is good to know that, nowadays workers have more rights than in the last centuries. For example if we contrast the Victorian age with our actual society we can find many differences in terms of workers rights.

  • Through the time workers realised that something was wrong with the way that they were treated. For this reason, the following essay will explain which the main revolutions were in order to give to the worker class a better quality of life inside their jobs. Also it is very connected with our educational reality. Thanks to these revolutions many schools are following the predominant society and their need. How this will affect our reality? Moreover how this will affect our own quality of life inside our future jobs?

  • First, we should see since when workers begin to express their dissatisfied with the way they were treated. We can remember the Victorian Era, Queen’s Victoria’s rule from June 1837 to January 1901 in the United Kingdom. At this period the relationship between modernity and cultural issues were pretty close. Workers had to face the injustice among social classes. This was good in one way because they began to think about their rights. Also, the impetus of the industrial revolution made worst this situation. However, the industrial revolution marked a major turning point in human society.

  • Secondly, after check since when the worker class begin to be aware about their rights we are going to change our route in order to know some important revolutions, in terms of though present in the modern period. There are four ones that helped to think about the modern concept of the work. The first is a scientific one. Francis Bacon an Irish philosopher was the precursor of this revolution. He thought that “know is power”. The second one is a political conception about the modern time. In this period people start to think on an ideal democracy, in order to change the political way of think about the work class.

  • The third one is a change in the cultural conception. Here people began to demand among themselves the use of the autonomy and the reason inside their demands for justice. The last one is technique. This means that workers must develop and clarify their understanding about it and how they could apply this, to handmade work to the industrial one. With these revolutions the modern concept of work changed. In this way, workers develop the analytic and critic way of think. Also, we can not ignore the influence of the Catholic Church inside this process. The pope Leon XIII wrote an Encíclica named Rerum Novarum. It is about the social issue about the worker class. Doing this he support the strikes and the creation of the syndicalism.

  • Nowadays everything is different in terms of work quality. We could see that our actual jobs are more flexible and workers don’t be afraid to express their feelings to it. Therefore, this flexibility has good and bag points. Maybe people today tend to abuse of it. However, if we could see our reality as future teachers we will realize that until now we have to work under pressure. Our schools must work under the government needs. Also teachers must teach what is more useful to our society in order to create useful citizens.

  • We could see in different texts about pedagogy that schools follow the same pattern of our society. For example, Marcia Prietto and Santos Guerra wrote about this hierarchy. The different types of power that exist inside the school context. However, we wanted or no we always will have a big image who will give us orders. So, if we think about how our society began to change their mentality in front workers needs and the big period of time that it takes we must continuing waiting for change the structure of our classes and the change of the superfluous curriculum that we are applying nowadays, everyday inside our classrooms.

As Pablo Freire said: “Decir la palabra verdadera es transformar al mundo”. So, to whom we are going to listen to? We could make the choice, as the workers did to ask for their rights.


Sources:

ª http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire


ª Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. W.W. Norton & Company: 1974


ª http://www.miradaglobal.com



1 comentario:

Fernanda dijo...

fanny! I recommend you to separate each paragraph, becuase it turns very stressing to read everything joined... just that.
I promisse to read it when could sleep 8 hours and not 3 as on friday