It was nice and really really interesting spending the time with two Danish boys and a friend of me, talking about the issues that we can find when we work as a professional like us, pedagogue and social educator.
Through the conversation we could find some similarities and contradictions between Denmark and Spain. We found that the figure of pedagogue and social educator, has some difficulties that we have to work and compete with.
For example we can work in a institution which some points of its philosophy or the way the staff work, we can't understand or we don't care. For example I have been working in a Children Home and in some cases was difficult to treat the child in a way that I wouldn't have chosen. About the staff I also have had some different views about our work but we could talk and met in the same point. I think that this international course is teaching me a lot about this. We are a lot of people and more over, we come from lot of different countries, so also, different cultures.
I'm strengthen my knowledge about the ways of see the life, ways of work and ways of communicate. I think it's fantastic this course in that way because in our future job and also in live, we are going to share experiences with a lot of kind of people so we have to have this experience for to be more flexible, competent and opened mind. Being with people from all over the world, not only because of the culture but also for the personalities that this culture can create.
The most different point that we found between of both countries was that in Denmark, if you want to get a job you have to present your criminal letter. In one way I think it's fantastic because you have to be secure if the staff its good but on the other hand, for example, one of the boys, was living in a squatter house. I can't believe that this is considered like a crime.
I think that's another way of live and why a man/woman who lives in a big an fancy house can be non-competitive for to be a pedagogue?
Connecting this conversation with the guest teacher Richard Lee Stevens, I would like to write about some of phrases that he mentioned in class: Is not enough be a social worker or pedagogue, you have to be real, respect yourself, your own experience and then, you can get in dialogue with people.
I'm really really agree with him. It's not enough study a degree or some kind of courses. In one hand, of course they can help you in your work but on the other hand, if you don't feel it, I think it's very difficult or impossible to get in real dialogue with somebody.
Many times I think that it's better to know yourself, your capacities, abilities and also, without less importance, your disabilities. Like Richard said, is also important to know your resources, which ones you can access or not.
I think that it's important because you have to offer to the other person, a realistic way. I mind, I can't tell him/her that I'm going to help him/her when I don't know if it's going to be possible or not, depending on myself or an external factor. How he/she is going to believe in us? I hope that us a professional, I never promise something impossible or not sure to other person. I don't want that he/she feels betrayed!
More over, I would like and I hope to have the feel inside me that the person who I work with is going to improve, solving his/her problems, etc. I hope to be quick, look after for the reasons, effective, etc.
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