February 4th, an official College holiday turned out to be interesting, thanks to Abhay Chawla sir, our Development communication lecturer. We were told to get plastic bags which obviously very few got and pliers to prick the nails from the barks of trees, which none of us got. We set out on our very first project this semester, to clean up the posters stuck on the trees, and other government properties like electric poles and electric boxes. We also managed to put waste papers around a barbed tree. The experience was although new but do not know how much, it was successful.
WHY DO I SAY THAT?
Firstly, i enjoyed the activity but could not yet get the true objective behind it. I mean, its good to pull out the posters but putting those papers in between the barbed wire, did not make sense to me, infact, it looked like another way to throw your coffee cups away, as we discussed in class.
Also, to know that there is no first step in development as such, is a kind of confusing because, all these years that is what we have been taught, to take the first step ahead and see the change, so is that bullshit?
Only one time effort will not be much of an use, need to have more such exercises going!
Any which ways, thank you for the experience!
WHY DO I SAY THAT?
Firstly, i enjoyed the activity but could not yet get the true objective behind it. I mean, its good to pull out the posters but putting those papers in between the barbed wire, did not make sense to me, infact, it looked like another way to throw your coffee cups away, as we discussed in class.
Also, to know that there is no first step in development as such, is a kind of confusing because, all these years that is what we have been taught, to take the first step ahead and see the change, so is that bullshit?
Only one time effort will not be much of an use, need to have more such exercises going!
Any which ways, thank you for the experience!
success and failure are measurable quantities depending on what you are trying to measure. Again what you want to measure has to be determined before you set out to measure it. development unless we take an economic criteria is difficult to measure(as we have read and understood). So you can measure enrollment in a school and you can measure quality of education by a quiz or exam but can you measure role of education, maybe, using some qualitative analysis.
ReplyDelete1)So it is not a good idea to measure activities on the success/failure scale unless you determine what you want to achieve before hand.
2)there is always a first step in any process. where does that first step start in a development process is not very clearly determined unless you are clear on what strategy you want to adopt for the work you intend to do.
"only one time effort will not be of much use" ask that to a hit n run victim, will you leave him/her on the road?