I experienced some development education the other day. \u00a0It with the presenter saying \"I like doing things\" and that this was to be a \"hands-on\" session. \u00a0We looked at bits of photos of India, putting them together, jig-saw like and then talking about what they showed. \u00a0Ours was of a city scape, a dual carriageway road with moving traffic: from gleaming 4x4s, to (equally polished) \u00a0three-wheel taxis, and the odd r\u00e9cherche Austin\/Morris saloon. \u00a0I suggested that the photograph illustrated prosperity: wrong answer, it seemed. \u00a0We moved on to a variety of other activities: I to looking at an informative, but dated, banana industry resource pack that showed the evils of global capitalism (which I knew about anyway), and the woman next to me to making \"Ghanian\" beads out of strips of wallpaper. \u00a0I wasn't sure what this was supposed to show; something about the Ghanian economy, I think, where there must be surplus wallpaper if the activity was to make sense. \u00a0There was no grounding of any of this in curriculum, pedagogy or learning. \u00a0It was just \u2013 in Jeremy Clarkson's words about Sudoko \u2013\u00a0something\u00a0to pass the time \u2013 before we die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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