Project 1: Topic Research

The topic: Education in 3rd world countries (AKA countries in development)

The key of the topic is mentioning how the lack of access to a good education or to any kind of education at all influences the development of the countries in development. 

The lack of education causes many disadvantages for any society and in the case of countries like Africa, Afganistan and even in some parts of china ignorance allows many issues to raise. Issues such as spreading of sexual diseases, crime, violence and and poor economy, high illiteracy rates which causes misinformation of individuals. 

Some of the reasons that cause education to not be provided or be difficult to provide are things such as inadequate budgets, lack of schools and/or teaching staff, students lacking the economic resources, overcrowded classrooms among many other reasons. 

This not only affects the individuals but the society as a whole. The lack of education prevents society from progressing into a system that allows individuals to have decent and human life conditions. 

There are many solutions to fix this issue and many countries and organizations are working on it, but the resources dedicated to allow the access to education for the people that lack of it are limited, and the people in need are many. 

I believe that education is the key to the future, and that educated, selfless individuals are the ones that turn that key to open the door into this future.

I could giver more details about each of this issue and its solutions but for the time being I will just establish the general idea to later choose which aspects I want to focus on and elaborate better information on them.

The signs:

Some of the signs that can convey this topic could be objects such as school supplies, or the map of whichever region we are trying to touch, or maybe even the figure of the earth. Maybe a broken pencil that has been fixed with tape, maybe a children walking barefoot with his/her backpack, or a children going to a marginal school, a chalkboard, an open notebook. It seems that the main focus of this topic lays on the children, so maybe I want to focus on signs related to them. Also if I am allowed I might combine some of this elements to better depict the idea that I am trying to convey.

Sources:

http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-education-around-world

http://www.bmz.de/en/what_we_do/issues/Education/hintergrund/bildungsituation/

http://www.waxmann.com/fileadmin/media/zusatztexte/postlethwaite/nestvoge.pdf