STUDENT NOTES

Your school is going to conduct some research to see what you think about the Dokumentarfilm 120 JAHRE EINSAMKEIT: Eine deutschsterreichische 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

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?

Topic Guide After Documentary Film

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 didnt 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 dont get sidetracked DONT STICK TO IT TOO MUCH. If the chat is interesting and its about your world/the Environment/the Sustanaible Development then dont worry if its not on your list of questions THATS 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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IVE BEEN so upset about the rainforest. Cant these people see how important the rainforest is. Its just money, money, nothing but money. The rainforest might come back but the animals and people that live there wont. By the time the rainforest does come back our would will be destroyed. Before people heard about the ozone layer they didnt 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.

How to run the group discussions

HERES 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 theyre not going to be famous and the tape is only for you it wont be off putting. 3. Tell the group what is going on, for example, you could say Hello, my name is _________, Im in the (grade, class, subject, major, course, etc. of the school, college, or university). Were 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. Its not like a lesson. There are no right or wrong answers. Its 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. Its as simple as that! 4. Often in groups somebody stays a little quiet. Try to get everyone talking but dont pick on anyone (remember its not a lesson!). Soon everyone will relax and chat quite happily youll probably have difficulty shutting people up!!! 5. Try without being bossy, to get only one person talking at a time. Its hard sometimes but youll have a much clearer idea of whats being said if everyone isnt shouting at you all at onece! 6. Keep the group to about 45 minutes that should be plenty of time. 7. Dont forget to thank everyone for all their hard work when its over. 8. If people say things you dont agree with KEEP QUIT youre there to find out what they think. As people are talking its often encouraging if you nod and say Yes, thats interesting, tell me more. 9. Relax yourself and enjoy it. HAVE FUN!

What to do once the discussion is over.

AFTER YOUVE DONE THE GROUPS, THEN THE WORK BEGINS!

1. Its 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, dont rely on your memory. Ask a teacher who was present for help. 3. Its your job to gather all the information and then work out what people were saying and how they felt. Youll have lots of information at your fingertips so be strict with yourselves. Try and work out KEY things 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 its 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 deutschsterreichische Kolonie im Urwald Perus. Aim to be brief. The shorter the better dont get bogged down by detail keep it simple. GOOD LUCK!

Pascal Vander Kamp, 11

Source: The Indy 8 March 1990

How to be a volunteer to help Pozuzo

WHEN 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.

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 dont think its 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.

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