Research Summary

Research Summary
Education Group


For our research our group found various articles on the following topics:

1. General Education in the third world
2. Museums and Exhibits specifically those pertaining to Science and Education
3. How Education can be improved (i.e. specific areas of interest for a third world country)
4. How education is incorporated in organizations like the United Nations.


Our findings for general preexisting education in third world countries show a need toward better systems in general. Children are often timed asked to pay miscellaneous fees that they cannot afford. The fees are often times the contributors for a lack of enthusiasm from the parent’s perspective. Also children hold more responsibilities in a third world family than they do in developed nations. They are required to tend to younger siblings as well as help raise money. This is another way the adults hold the children back. The lack of education therefore becomes a vicious cycle of the uneducated holding back the uneducated.

Our museum research shows great leaps and bounds over the last few decades. Because people are more inclined to get information from the internet or other services, museums have to compete to keep up. They are constantly innovating new interactive exhibits, and striving to make their museum the “it” place. Exhibit designers are now taken into consideration ideas like the “white wall theory” in order to keep the crowds coming.

Through our research we have found a number of areas that could be improved upon in a third world education. Science is a large category that many of our rooms are based around. It seems that many of the third world countries are lacking proper knowledge of how crops grow, or how germs can be prevented. Science is an area that can both educate and facilitate a better world for these people. It seems most of the schools focus on reading and writing opposed to science and math.

Since the United Nations’ aim is to recognize a international law, security, and development we thought this would be a good place to look. They clearly state that education is a human right, which expands and develops human personality. In theory it should be given to all humans. It plays a great part in the international economy and cultural developments. It therefore should be given to every person to develop his/her inherent potential.