Living On One Dollar Analysis

The research on the globalization of education involves more variables than expected. In order for education to be able to proceed a country must have a stable economy, political organizations, and the culture needs to be all allowing for education to occur. If these are present education is allowed to advance. Education is not always the priority of a county. For example, how in some 3rd world countries, they focus more on food and farming in order to sustain life. If they do have a sort of education programs they usually are limited and most students eventually drop out. For example, in “Living on One Dollar” the movie we watched in class it was shown how the children of the town were so poor that most of the time education was the least of the town’s worries. One example in the movie was how the young boy when asked what he wanted to do when he grew up responded with he was going to farm, instead of talking about education advancing, his priority was the farm. This shows how education is not always the priority.

This compares drastically to America were in order to receive the even simplest of jobs, they require that you must have some sort of education. In America jobs are also now requiring their employees to have higher education for starting positions. This shows

Some of these countries include: Cambodia, Nepal, Chad, and Turkey. Though some of these sound surprising the facts are that even though girls can possibly attend schools, the are taught to not want to. For instance, in Turkey there are roughly 500,000 girls not in school. This is due to the idea that if your daughter attends school they will not get married. In Cambodia, only 15% of women seek education and higher education. Yet, for most women they either do farm work or prostitute themselves. In these countries education is focused on the males of the family. Women are either not allowed or driven away from even attending