Research Plan
Once again hello and welcome to my blog and for the purpose of my research I interviewed a local friend who grew up in a third world country. That country is Ecuador specifically Cuenca, Ecuador and how it had impacted her will be my primary source.
Her personal experience of how education was neglected from her will help me learn a little more of the current situation. I will also be conducting surveys of old classmates of my interviewee so I can have a wider approach to the lack of education in Ecuador. I believe that these experiences and surveys will help me conduct my research in the best way possible. I will explain the importance of these sources and how they will contribute to writing my paper.
When I spoke to my Interviewee, who preferred her identity remain anonymous, she gave me more insight into what growing up without an education in Ecuador was like. We started with the time period when the quality of education was the worst. My interviewee was born in the year 1980 and stated how her mother as well did not go to school and barely knew how to write her name and she had no idea how to read. She is thankful that she got a little more education compared to her mother. my interviewee started going to school in the year 1985 and once she started her educational career it was only a matter of time when she would get pulled out of school. When she was only five years old she started preschool and was trusted to walk to school with her older brother that year.
The following week he was pulled out of school and put to work, he was pulled out of school finishing off the 4th grade. She was then responsible for a 40 minute walk to the nearest school as there were only 2 schools around her town during the 1980’s and the other school was much farther. Just hearing some of the basic information that was processed to me I know I can understand more of the cause to why this happened as well as the effect it is leaving. Unfortunately, my interviewee was pulled out of school during her 5th year and could no longer attend because of the socioeconomic status she was in. They could no longer afford to send her to school because they needed her to stay home and start working.
Unfortunately, this is the case of many children back then and even now with my research I hope to understand the causes behind the children being pulled out of school, but more importantly to be able to find a solution for this. My survey will also allow me to view the quality of education that was offered considering kids were being pulled out very soon. What was the education that was offered? Was it the basics or the essential information that was offered to them?
