About the experience of the consciousness-aware

A few weeks ago, my friend and I decided to show our classmates the reality of Spain, this is to say, we thought of how important is for future teachers to know how the crisis has affected the society and therefore the children. As volunteers, we know how much our country is suffering the crisis and that the most affected people are the kids.

                We tried to give our mates, some ‘’theory’’ that we thought was important to understand the situation. First, we explained to them the areas of exclusion and inclusion and the four worlds in our world. We did this with some pictures to make it easier and less dense. Then we played a game which was about prejudices, this game tried to explain how we prejudice people by their image and by some little information that we had about them, but they are more than image and information, they are people with their backgrounds and we can’t just judge them we have to understand them. As teachers we think that this is an important lesson, because it’s easy to judge our students by their image or by some little information that we have about them, we have to go deeper and try to know them better, not just imagining how they are.

                Our next step was to give some data about the reality of Spain nowadays because of the crisis, because real information makes things clearer. Finally, we told them our experience because we are conscious that what catches people attention is to hear a real story. Our last step was to encourage them to see the reality of their world by themselves, so we give them some different options of voluntary work.

                As teachers we are probably going to fade a lot of students with economical or family problems, and I think being a volunteer is the best way to fade this reality. Also, being a volunteer could help this world to be a better place and these kids to have a better reality.