Reflection

Well, it's finally over and I don't really know what to say in this group reflection it seems everyone has said what I wanted to! Well done everyone, I think Kartik is right in saying that we may not have got on well with each other at times because of other assignment pressures but on the day of the presentation we had great group chemistry and this reflected on the good audience reception. Even though Kartik did make a few technical mistakes; they turned out to be quite amusing. Even though group work got frustrating at times - different people and learning to work with different habits (due to spending to much time working together) I had a lot of fun researching, designing PowerPoint and best of all rehearsing and all the times we messing up and bursting into laughter. Felt like I was doing drama! It was difficult choosing the topic because everyone had different topics they were more interested in, but we managed to make a decision on discussing the statement 'Multicultualism does more harm than good'. Next, we had to decide what form to use and again we all agreed on doing a 'mock the week' style presentation, which would obviously include humour. Kartik took minutes every time we met up, as he insisted that he enjoyed it! We spent hours arguing out the statement, sociological, but when we presented our ideas to Meena in lecture she advised us that we look at more philosophical material, and so we went of the the library looking up liberalists and communitarianists as one panel would be 'liberal' and the other 'communitarian's'. The two panels would argue out there perspective on multiculturalism and the 'presenter' would mediate between us asking questions etc. After we had performed it and being fairly comfortable doing so , Meena took us by shock in questioning the whole of the presentation and its relevance to the statement 'Multiculturalism does more harm than good'. I think Jacek is right in this reflection that we focused more on the political side and perhaps we should have included or certainly started of with common sense type arguments, although this was expressed through the 'mock the style' like humour the presenter used at the beginning and end of the presentation. However, in answering Meena's question I think it reinforced what we had learnt and the relevance of it to the topic. Furthermore, I felt it showed that we had all researched the topic well as we all made a contribution in answering the questions by both William and Meena and there was no one speaker predominate, which was quite prevalent in most of the presentations. So, well done guys.