It’s crazy; it took me 3 days to figure out what this assignment was truly asking me. At first I was thinking, “Consequences, why would there be any type of consequence learning about anything international.” I asked my mother to elaborate and when her answer frustrated me even more I then turned to my best friend. He told me to look at the word consequence as something negative, but as an end result of some learned. So that is what I am going to do.
My three consequences are how the Philippines believe:
The early a child learns to read the better off the child will be
The idea of convincing officials that play in the classroom is essential to a child’s development
The issue of poverty exists there as well, with about 5 million families being affected
What I really learned and enjoyed about learning about the Philippines was that as much as they are different from us here in the United States, we still have some of the same values. The best part is that even though sometimes it seems as though the reason are not genuine, both countries value their children. They go into national debt trying to create and make sure they establish programs which provide a beginning level to their education.
Hi Keisha,
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean! Sometimes I think so much about the wording of a question that I end up working way too hard to answer it! I confess that there have been times when I have written up a long, drawn out, researched answer and then read the question again and realized I was making way too much of it--will I ever learn?
I was not aware that there was such a push for early reading in the Philippines--how sad. I recall our classmate, Elizabeth, saying that the Philippines sometimes look to the United States as a role model in education--hopefully we'll get our act together and start valuing play and they will follow suit!
Best of luck in your future courses. Perhaps we'll meet again in the next class!