miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2011

a documentary called “The Last Passage”


Last 19 of september we were invited to watch a documentary called “The Last Passage” and we were asked for watching it from the educational view. I´m just a student, learning to be a teacher, so must be understood that my comment comes from this condition. 

The first thing that teachers did when seeing the documentary is to think which kind of students was it for: Wich level is the most apropiated for? Where will this documentary work best? I spent all the broadcasting doing it. And teachers that I talked with then made this too. We all decided that the most apropiated level to offer this film is first of High School (16-17 years). And the supporting reason was that the topics of documentary coincide with the topics that students are learning on this year. Allthoug a teacher has to have an in-depth knowledge about human development, I guess that sometimes we are too condicionated by this “template” called curriculum.

But let´s comment the documentary. As I told to Enara Goikoetxea, I saw a very litle Europe in there. And this is great! We use to see Europe bigger than it is, on the maps... There are shown many cultures of Europe in “The Last Passage”, different speaked languages change every time and subtitled come and disappear all the time. I´ve felt some kind of “europeanness” watching it, and that happened without any cultural standarization. We are into a globalization process and working on the development of the global and local personalities, working on both, may be important. This documentary is pretty good for developing the  “cultural awareness and expression” competence on students. Teacher could make the students debate if there is necessary to have a big, bad enemy to people join forces. I guess it is not a very new cuestion.

This is only one of the aspects of the touching documentary. 

Thanks again for the invitation.