The assignment just undertaken in the form of a UN debate was an interesting one, and one that I did enjoy. I learnt a lot about group work, and how that government policies are available for public reading (if they exist!). The country that me and Steve were set to work with was Cambodia. Researching information about sustainable development strategies for a majority country was relatively difficult and a hard task. This surprised especially due to the millennium development goals, so before I just assumed every country were pulling out every stop to be sustainable, but in the research this was not the case.
Out of all 14 countries – there were so many varied approaches in this race to achieve the ultimate aim of living sustainably. This was fantastic and great to know, even though many are unsuccessful. It was interesting to hear, from other majority world countries, who on the day to day you would not hear about their sustainable development strategies.
Steve and I’s presentation went fairly well, even though it was slightly unstructured. I was expecting to rehearse previously with Steve, but this wasn’t the case, as he didn’t turn up. This meant that I was in fits or nerves before hand, but when in the UN debate, I was fine. We worked well together, and we created a well organised handout – although we could have put more detail on it – but at the time, we thought that wouldn’t be necessary.
If I were to do this exercise again, I would defiantly rehearse the speech, provide more detail on the handout, maybe dress up and take the role play in to its true meaning! I did enjoy this assignment even though I did stress myself out – but I am good and pleased with our result.
I learnt about the ways that each country in the world, try to tackle the same issue differently, some better than others, but also how much the importance of sustainability differs. I think it helped me to see sustainability on a more national level, that the more developing countries should be bothered too.
I learnt about the ways that each country in the world, try to tackle the same issue differently, some better than others, but also how much the importance of sustainability differs. I think it helped me to see sustainability on a more national level, that the more developing countries should be bothered too.
I learnt, not to leave things to the last minute, in terms of our rehearsal. The team work between us was well distributed and it was also a challenge to work with someone off campus, as they aren’t just there in the next flat if you need them!
All in all, it was worthwhile and rewarding.
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2 comments:
I too really enjoyed this assignment. It was so interesting to find out a lot on information about so many countries, most of which I knew very little about. I really enjoyed your presentation and found the issues facing Cambodia very interesting and was keen to learn what you would use the money for.
I was also very nerves like you and felt I would have benefited a lot more if I had of practised the speech and tried to have used my notes less. I thought u did really well as you only had a few notes and the rest of it was your own words.
Considering the fact that your partner wasn’t on campus much I thought u both did really well and worked well together producing a well balanced argument as to why your country needed the money.
You enjoyed this...you sure it wasnt tourture lol! Definately will join you in saying i was very nervous! I know what you mean really it was quite fun and definately interesting to find out about all the countries sustainable policies.
I think your presentation was very good at trying to convince the UN to give Cambodia money! Especially as finding time to collect info and rehearce together was hard for you. Your presentation felt like it had plenty of information to it so dont fret! (one day will forgive your team for asking us a question! lol)
Certainly would join you with having more rehearsal time next time so as to get timings right and squash nerves!
Well done!
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