Journal Set 3: Granito de Arena
GRANITO DE ARENA
This film is based on
the effects of Neoliberalism. Mainly, the issue in the movie is what the role
of teacher is in the effect of Neoliberalism. First of all, we can start with
the concept of Human Capital.
For many years, global
economic powers have been breaking the
public education into pieces in Mexico. Granito de Arena is the story of
struggle that schoolteachers are looking for rights of students ,and social and
economic justice in Mexico’s public schools. Government doesn’t give any help
to education, schools and students. Even, schools are adopted as workforce by
government. Schools are being manipulated by institutions for commercial aims.
For example, students
are working several companies and this makes them tired, but when they go to
the school, they may feel relieved because there is no heavy workload in
schools. All these arise from competition that comes from the impact of
Neoliberalism, so schools are seen as the union of laborers by institutions.
Rich people haven’t been affected by this issue, but the poor are in the core
of such a significant issue. Thus, the struggle has become inevitable. To
defend public education, this struggle starts and leaders of that movement are
teachers. In the beginnings, they try to deal with many difficulties such as
violence to poor people by security forces in the case of demonstrations
because they are minority in society.
Afterwards, they have become the majority in society and
struggle begins to become widespread. This makes the government interested in
this issue. Government starts to adhere to the teachers as “charros” that are
violent movement leaders. Teachers are seen as dangerous because they are
intimately connected with the social production of labor power, equipping
students with skills, competences, abilities, knowledge, and personal qualities
that can be expressed and expended in the capitalist labor process.
Teachers are guardians
of the quality of labor power. This potential, latent power of teachers
explains why representatives of the state might have sleepless nights worrying
about their role. Later on, teachers have been killed because of that, but in
reality, it cannot be seen as violent movement since the people are only looking for their fundamental rights. They
don’t have any dangerous device while making demonstrations. Killing the
teachers ,in fact, means blocking the development of the state , and even
helping the country regress. I tried to tell what I understood and I advice you
to watch this film.
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