STUDENT NOTESYour school is going to conduct some research to see what you think about the Dokumentarfilm „120 JAHRE EINSAMKEIT: Eine deutsch-österreichische Kolonie im Urwald Perus“. Some of this research will group discussions. Group discussions are where a fiw people get together and chat!

Here are a few ‘Rules’ to help. Each group should be six to eight students of the same year/course/subject/major. Each group will have a leader (not a teacher/professor). The leader will have a list of the things to talk about. This is called a Topic Guide.

Topic Guide –

Before Documentary Film

Topic Guide –

After Documentary Film

1. How interested are we in Pozuzo?

2. What interests/concerns us most about Pozuzo today?

3. Who do talk to about these concerns?

4. What can we do about the things that concern us?

5. Could schools help us/how?6. What should politicias do?7. Are we optimistic/pessimistic

about Pozuzo?

8. What do you expect to happen in the future?

9. What would you like to happen?

1. What did we think about Pozuzo?

2. Was it as good as we hoped or not/why?

3. What was the best bit/why?4. What was the worst bit/why?5. Who was the best person on

it/why?6. Who was the worst

person/why?7. What things did it talk about?8. Did it tell us anything we

didn’t know?9. Did it leave anything out?10.What would we have done

differently?11.Was it interesting/which bits?12.What can we do for the

future?13.How do we feel about the

future of Pozuzo in relationship with the environmental future of the world/the sustainable development of the world?

14.What can we do to help Pozuzo/would we like to be volunteers?

Try and remenber that these groups are really only an excuse for a good chat and gossip, and perhaps, for becoming volunteers.

Your list of questions is realy so that you don’t get sidetracked – DON’T STICK TO IT TOO MUCH. If the chat is interesting and it’s about your world/the Environment/the Sustanaible Development then don’t worry if it’s not on your list of questions – THAT’S FINE!

Group discussions are really only to get people to talk about what they feel and why – so encourage them to chat things AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

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A greedy death

I’VE BEEN so upset about the rainforest. Can’t these people see how important the rainforest is. It’s just money, money, nothing but money. The rainforest might come back but the animals and people that live there won’t. By the time the rainforestdoes come back our would will be destroyed. Before people heard about the ozone layer they didn’t care about the rainforest. Now they are making such a big deal of it. We need it. Man has just made our world dead because of money and greed.

Pascal Vander Kamp, 11Source: ‘The Indy’ 8 March 1990

“I would like to live in a world where there were not always wars going on somewhere and there were not always wars expected. I would like everybody to have the right amount of food and not some to have too little and others to have too much. I don’t think it’s fair that some people die of hunger and others die or get ill because of too much food. I would like car exhausts to be made on the right rather than on the left because I always get a lot of smoke in my socks and they smell the day after. It is also dangerous for people to breathe in fumes.”

Source: Holden, C., ‘World Studies Journal’, Vol. 6 No1, 1985.

How to run the group discussionsHERE’S A FEW HINTS THAT MAY HELP.

1. Get your 6 – 8 people to sit comfortably, to put their feet up!

2. Keep teachers/professors in the background and quiet! They can take notes if you want or tape the group. As long as everyone knows they’re not going to be famous and the tape is only for you it won’t be off putting.

3. Tell the group what is going on, for example, you could say…“Hello, my name is _________, I’m in the (grade, class, subject, major, course, etc. of the school, college, or university). We’re doing some research about Pozuzo, Peru, all we want you to do is to tell us what you think about Pozuzo in relationship with the world around you. It’s not like a lesson. There are no right or wrong answers. It’s much more of a chat really. All I want to know is what you think and why. And, of course, if you would like to be a volunteer to help Pozuzo. It’s as simple as that!”

4. Often in groups somebody stays a little quiet. Try to get everyone talking – but don’t pick on anyone (remember it’s not a lesson!). Soon everyone will relax and chat quite happily – you’ll probably have difficulty shutting people up!!!

5. Try without being bossy, to get only one person talking at a time. It’s hard sometimes but you’ll have a much clearer idea of what’s being said if everyone isn’t shouting at you all at onece!

6. Keep the group to about 45 minutes – that should be plenty of time.

7. Don’t forget to thank everyone for all their hard work when it’s over.

8. If people say things you don’t agree with KEEP QUIT – you’re there to find out what they think. As people are talking it’s often encouraging if you nod and say “Yes, that’s interesting, tell me more.”

9. Relax yourself and enjoy it.

HAVE FUN!

What to do once the discussion is over.AFTER YOU’VE DONE THE GROUPS, THEN THE WORK BEGINS!

1. It’s up to you to analyse and understand what the group thought and to add to all the other groups!

2. Go back to the tapes or notes, don’t rely on your memory. Ask a teacher who was present for help.

3. It’s your job to gather all the information and then work out what people were saying and how they felt. You’ll have lots of information at your fingertips so be strict with yourselves. Try and work out KEYthings that came out in the discussions. You have to collapse all this information down so that you can tell everybody else – in just a few pages, SMS, emails or messages in social networks, what was going on.

4. This is the analysis stage and it’s the hardest – do ask teachers for help. What you want to end up with is 1 document per year that says what the groups thought and felt before and after watch Dokumentarfilm „120 JAHRE EINSAMKEIT: Eine deutsch-österreichische Kolonie im Urwald Perus“. Aim to be brief. The shorter the better – don’t get bogged down by detail – keep it simple.

GOOD LUCK!

How to be a volunteer to help PozuzoWHEN ALL IS OVER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A VOLUNTEER?You could become a volunteer alone or with your classmates as follows.

1. VOLUNTEERS IN YOUR OWN CITY. You can organize activities to

promote aid and to recruit volunteers in your city or country.

2. VOLUNTEERS IN POZUZO, PERU. You can travel to Pozuzo to

make sustainable development and environmental activities in situ.

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