The collaboration was mediocre, it was hard to hear what our peers in India said and most of the time the people stayed silent. We got to ask 3 questions, 2 of which were awnsered by teachers. The rest of the questions we had to send via text due to a time restraint. These questions got awnsered about 2 weeks later. The questions we asked during the conference were mostly awnsered with simple yes or no’s.
Viewing their findings we did not recognise our own findings. As in India the parents and grandparents reported there to be beatings when school rules were broken, major gender inequality and lots of women and girls not attending school/being married off at a young age. But here most schools did not actually beat the children when they did something wrong but instead gave them punishments such as detention and suspension. There were a few women who were housewives but most attended school. And were working people. No one was married off either. Our research method compared to theirs was also vastly different as became apparent in the second video conference where we received the question “How did your grandparents get to school during WW2?” We never expected to get a question like this and thus we had no awnser. We learned that school life in India is a lot different to our school life, from the behaviour of teachers to the gender roles and work. Over here if a teacher would dare lay a finger on a student they could get sued and fired but in India it is normal for a teacher to physically correct a student when they’re doing something wrong. We also learned that going to school in India is sometimes considered a privilege. That occurred to us as intresting because over here,
We take going to school for granted. It is expected that everyone can/will go to school.
Viewing their findings we did not recognise our own findings. As in India the parents and grandparents reported there to be beatings when school rules were broken, major gender inequality and lots of women and girls not attending school/being married off at a young age. But here most schools did not actually beat the children when they did something wrong but instead gave them punishments such as detention and suspension. There were a few women who were housewives but most attended school. And were working people. No one was married off either. Our research method compared to theirs was also vastly different as became apparent in the second video conference where we received the question “How did your grandparents get to school during WW2?” We never expected to get a question like this and thus we had no awnser. We learned that school life in India is a lot different to our school life, from the behaviour of teachers to the gender roles and work. Over here if a teacher would dare lay a finger on a student they could get sued and fired but in India it is normal for a teacher to physically correct a student when they’re doing something wrong. We also learned that going to school in India is sometimes considered a privilege. That occurred to us as intresting because over here,
We take going to school for granted. It is expected that everyone can/will go to school.