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.

Summary Paragraph (1 paragraph describing your idea. It should cover the 4 course themes: context, process, impact, and management/direction)

The theme of our project is education. Our main context is to create and built a hands-on community center located in a village that contains a big population. Eventually, if our center works, then we will spread it to our villages. The center will be open to the whole village, adults and kids. We want this to be a place where people have more opportunity with even the slightest education and technology. The center will contain an agriculture room where people could plant, a lego room where kids could play, a main room which would be used for lectures given by volunteers, a library/computer lab which will be used for research and studying, a kitchen which will be used to teach children on how to use their resources that are available to them in a more useful way. The main entrance will be used to dine and socialize. There will be one main director that will get paid through donations. Hopefully, our community center will get people more motivated in learning and teach them the basics of how to use their resources with more creativity.

Models

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Prototype

- lecture hall, entrance/main hall, library, computer lab, agriculture, kitchen(cleanliness), art room, play/building room
- boulders flowing to the outside, planting area
- Frosted glass, Lego/room looks into art room, library looks into computer lab, movable walls
- Same activities/functions, unless for community events
- Main hall/ lecture hall
- Close to the center of the village (bigger villages), one for now and then grow
- Same, languages and agriculture
- Walk, special bus days (heads of villages communicate bus days), once a month
- Computer/research tutorials, economics, agricultural science, cooking for children, first aid lessons
- Classes can go on field trips there, not school affiliated

Lecture hall – movable chairs and tables, stage, projector – movies, educational videos, speaker system (classical music), solid walls, and sound proof

Entrance/main hall – wooden benches, circular tables, solar system, constellations

Library – walls of books/textiles, how-to, reference guides, world library, open study tables

Computer – computer along walls, headphones provided to listen to music, create computer network of music and tutorials

Agricultural – play fountain, spongy floors, learn how to grow crops, self sustaining eco-system, compost making worms

Kitchen – clean water guidelines, cleanliness/hygiene, stove, sink, cabinets, bowls, plates, and recycling area, first-aid closet

Art room – children works, dry erase wall, develop skills, flows into play room

Play/building room – science influenced, show parts of the body – Franklin institute, anatomy,