Chile is facing a new period of manifestations in universities and school across the country. This time it is not about profits in education or free education for everyone or the quality of the contents and teachers/professors; this time the issue is about sexual harassment within the schools and universities, sexist education and injustice (people who have been accused of wrong behavior are still working and interacting with the victims). Girls and women are protesting against this abuse and they have decided to go on strike or have tomas (via democratic vote) to manifest and make themselves heard. Most of their male classmates support them.
A lot of people do not agree with this situation or they don't understand the meaning of this movement. "What is the relation between abuse and stop classes?" or "a toma is violent, feminists are violent" are ideas that I hear a lot these days.
In my opinion, this is also related to education because for years we have been told that professors and teachers are right and they have the power to act and we only have to obey and study, but guess what...some people believe that they have the power to do whatever they want and never question their position or their privilege or their role. I think our role is to provide knowledge and help you develop your skills (not only language skills) and be part of a healthy environment. Professors are as important as the students and as important as the people who clean the university. We are part of an entity and we should work together to have a nice context where we can all share and grow as a community. If that means that strikes and tomas are part of the process, we have to be able to reflect on these situations and create an environment where everybody feels safe and comfortable to learn, study and to grow as a person/student/teacher.
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Lucas
I think that it's a difficult topic. The mens and womans trought in history have a gigant differences between their roles and the power that the mens had. Now it's evident that the issue exploded and nobody else permit other act of violence, for that reason exist the manifestation, strikes and have an topic only of feminism.
ResponderEliminarI'm glad that you as a teacher think on that way about the current context and manifestations. Respect is always important.
ResponderEliminarCheers!
The Archeology can help us to see periods of time where the differences of men and women where not so big as today, that in fact, this struggle came with civilization and the formation of disparity along with the patriarchy, the class conflict and all the things that our sistem inherited.
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