7.41 Changes in “time”: The Nomad Community School daily schedule, which is divided into fifteen- and thirty-minute schedule periods. |
7.44 First graders sitting cross-legged on the floor listening to an arithmetic lesson at the Nomad Community School. |
9.8 Children stand in rows listening to a teacher address a student assembly at the Nomad Community School |
9.9 Children crowd into one of the classrooms at the Nomad Community School |
9.10 Shy schoolgirls on the Nomad school ground |
9.11 Energetic schoolboys lounging in the entrance of a school classroom |
9.13 Schoolboy aspiration #1: A boy draws a picture of himself as a soldier in the future. Almost half the boys drew pictures of themselves as soldiers or a policemen. The choices of the other boys favored occupations such as piloting planes or helicopters and driving heavy trucks or operating equipment. Unfortunately, almost no boys will have the educational skills or opportunities to attain these jobs in fact; virtually all village youth will grow up to be "unemployed farmers." |
9.14 Schoolboy aspiration #2: A boy draws a picture of himself as a soldier. |
9.16 Schoolboy aspiration #4: A boy draws a picture of himself as a policeman catching a criminal. |
9.17 Schoolboy aspiration #5: A boy draws a picture of himself as a policeman catching a criminal |
9.18 Schoolboy aspiration #6: A schoolboy draws a picture of himself as a member of the Papua New Guinea police force |
9.20 Schoolboy aspiration #7: A boy draws a picture of himself as a mine worker operating heavy equipment in the future |
9.21 Schoolboy aspiration #8: A boy draws a picture of himself as a helicopter pilot in the future. Note the long straight hair and light skin of the pilot; many of the pilots who fly to nomad are Australians. |
9.23 Schoolgirl aspiration #1: A schoolgirl draws a picture of herself as a “woman” (housewife) in the future. Note the absence of a mouth in the woman's face; does this indicate the presumed "voicelessness" of modern wives? The number of girls who submitted drawings was two-thirds that of the boys (40 versus 64). The school enrollment of girls in the grades that submitted drawings (grades 2-5) was only about half that of boys (53 versus 102 students). |
9.24 Schoolgirl aspiration #2: A girl draws a picture of herself as a teacher in the future |
9.25 Schoolgirl aspiration #3: A girl draws a picture of herself as a teacher in the future |
9.26 Schoolgirl aspiration #4: A girl draws a picture of herself as a nurse in the future |
9.27 Schoolgirl aspiration #5: A girl draws a picture of herself as a nurse in the future |
9.28 Schoolgirl aspiration #6: A girl draws a picture of herself as ascending to heaven in the future. Note to viewers: This drawing closely parallels the poster of Christian conversion shown in photo in the eleventh web-photo of chapter 8. | |
