Recently had doubts about my individual project, because during the preparation for EPP, I found my project getting more and more political, in the sense that my project is pushing me to become an activist. I had this realisation when I found myself searching through different political eras throughout Chinese history and chatting to my friends from a variety of different backgrounds about their perspective of Chinese education.
And I stopped myself, because this feels wrong. I came with the initial goal to create change with fiction. While learning the origins of Chinese education is beneficial because the result-based education system is itself a “fictional” world that generates/encourages a certain mode of belief, is fiction the best way to create maximum change? One fact I do know is that it is certainly the best way for me, as an individual, to create change.
On a personal level, reading and creating fiction brings me joy, and on a societal level, fiction condenses macroscopic views into a world that is easier to comprehend.
emmmm okayyy here’s a thought:
Result-based education system is fictional.
The way you are educated is fictional. They tell you about a fictional world(whether good or bad, if it can be defined that way)
This reality that you form, whether as a student or as a graduate, is a fiction edited from the objective truth.
Richard’s idea: curating a movement of fiction/artwork/screaming(??) with rules and guidelines.(to do whaaaat…?)(to project this view to younger people?)(because there is a religion/belief going on that should be broken or unlearned.)(By curating this movement, people are not just letting off steam on the internet, they’re also giving off a warning to youngsters who are just stepping into this environment).
This itself would be a platform for fiction.
And that goes back to the education system(grades, ranks, hierarchies, etc) being fictional.
e.g. feedback on unit 2, the one next to the letter grades, gives u a small story of who u are(which clearly is one-sided and therefore untrue, but it is a brilliant example). Young students tend to believe it to be their own personality and that’s why they are negatively impacted when their grades are relatively bad…
Two works of fiction I could add to research:
The “Three Body Problem” by Cixin Liu.
and Dungeons and Dragons(a game I’m not familiar with).
And of course, 1984.
I need to remind myself to take action(interventions) rather than just analysing the same information again and again.