IC w5 Core Values

At the school where I work, the management has decided what our core values ​​are en came uo with 6 of them.

1. Courage

2. Involvement

3. Flexibility

4. Result-oriented

5. Innovative

6. Collaboration

We had a studyday about this and they had invited the director of the local zoo "Blijdorp" Erik Zevenbergen as a guest speaker.

The first thing this gentleman said is that you should have between 3 and 5 core values ​​because otherwise it would be too much and the second was that he had also set core values ​​together with his staff. Because core values ​​must belong to everyone and involvement and recognition are therefore very important.

During his presentation I naturally started to think about my own core values ​​or maybe it is better to call them goals or intent. I came up with the following too long line:

1. Originality,

2. Curiosity,

3. Investigative,

4. Focus,

5. Driven,

6. Interest,

7. Spontaneous,

8. Involved,

9. Arts and crafts,

10. Involved.

I know the belief of many that everything is already done and nothing more original. I don't think so myself. It is not necessarily the case that everything I make is terribly original, but striving for it is very important to me.

However, the director also gave an example of a true story that I will not soon forget. It illustrates how humans got rid of the animal kingdom and that animals are fun to watch on television in the great outdoors from a distance and in booths in the zoo, but they have to behave sweet and cute.

What you need to know to understand this story is that the zoo is trying its best to mimic reality. What I mean by this is that if certain animals in the wild also live together, without eating each other, they also put them together in the zoo. Similarly the kudos and the giraffes. They also live together in the wild.

Now the story begins with a male kudo, named Nico, who wanted to reproduce. He had devised a way to impress the females so that they would see him. To get that done he tipped over one of the giraffes and that in front of many visitors and of course also the cameras and telephones they carried with them. In this movie placed on YouTube you van see part of what happend.

Although this is found to be very good in a nature film with a narrative voice from a commentator. This turned out not to be the case at the zoo. The spectators were deeply outraged that this could just happen. That not a whole procession of employees came to help the poor giraffe or, better still, someone with a gun to shoot that Nico. The zoo received thousands of complaints and incidents in the foreseeable future; "Nico had to die. Because of this event the traumatized children who had seen this would need psychological help and the zoo had to pay for this is another example of a reaction.

I have been on safari in Botswana and this is just what can happen. This is nature and not anything has happened, actually. Nature is about eating and being eaten. What do people think all those animals eat at the zoo; vegetarian?

What is interesting in this case is the question of what caused this view of nature. To what extent do social media play a role here. We do see video clips on Facebook of cute polar bears who have strayed from their mother, but eventually reunited but not from the other side of the same nature. We only see the world at its best. Should everything that does not fit in with our experience give way to our delicate feelings? Do we want to educate children with borrowing but Disney animations with cute drawn animals.

Wouldn't a little sense of reality be a wonderful core value?

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Sources

JAYDEN, Jason. 2017. Shocking! Kudu attacks Giraffe at Blijdorp. Available at: https://youtu.be/m4b3JpV8q3o [accessed 25 Februari 2020]