Historia y corrientes internacionales de la educación

30/10/2017   South Korea and Finland: two nations that have completely opposite approaches whose students consistenly rank on top of the world. How is that posible?   Education systems of South Korea and Finland are very different. However, their strategies lead to the top of the rankig.   On the one hand, focusing on South Korea system we can underlined that parents care too much about children´s success. That is why children make an effort like a favour to their parents. Besides, South Korean children studies 2 more years in their career than American´s.  As this were not enough, they have private clases at nights. System of Korea is as the economic success story.  On the other hand, Finland system spend less time at schools. Children don´t start school until they are seven years old. Furthermore, they have far less homework than many countries. The aim of this system is to develop creative students. More...

27/10/2017   PROJECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING     Alejandra sent to us an email last night where she explained what we had to do today. So, we did exactly what she said. Firstly, we have looked for some videos and pictures to do an entertainment project. If this were not enough, we exponed some activities to do the practice interactive. Then, we prepared our written reserch work on our PPT presentation. It was easy for us because we have clear ideas. Besides, we investigated on APA style because it is very important this aspect for the project.  From my point of view we organized the hour in an appropriate way to aprove the time.  

24/10/2017 PROJECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING Today Alejandra let us time for the cooperative project that we have to do. So, we went to an appropriate space to work on it. Firstly, we divided the work in pairs.On the one hand, María and I went to the library to look for some information. On the other hand, the rest of the group worked on the points that we had to finished. María was working on the methodology. However, Marta and Laura focused on the contex. When my classmate and I arrived from the library, I helped my classmates with the information and María read the APA style. We were working to hours so it was very productive.  

23/10/2017 TRADITIONAL AND NEW HISTORY Today we started the class with a presentation of traditional history and new history. It was divided in six poitns based on the differences between traditional and new history.  Alejandra asked us questions about this document to resolve with our own words. Besides, we saw two videos to understand better the differences.The first one was a man talking about the importance of school system.However, the second one focused on the differences of the perceptions of westerners and easterners. This class was very productive as I could complete my summary and clarified my ideas.

  QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITIVE RESEARCH     There are two types of research: quantitative and qualitative. In this table we can see the main differences of both.     It is very helpful to know the differences of both methods because we use them in education.     

  20/10/2017   TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND NEW HISTORY     Alejandra sent to us an email on Thursday. She explained that we will have a debate in class on Friday about the differences between traditional and new history. We asked her the favour to pospone that acitvity because we wanted to prepare better.   María and I read deeply the document to make a table with the differences of traditional and new history. It was easy for us because we had underlined the key words.   TRADITIONAL HISTORY NEW HISTORY Concerned with politics and this politics are concerned with the state. It included the history of the Church as an institution. Is concerned with human activity and it is known as cultural construction . Narrative of events like economic,social and geo-historical changes over the very long term Analysis of structures which ar...

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND NEW HISTORY This cooperative activity is divided in two days. On the one hand, he first day Alejandra explained to us what we had to do and she gave to us an useful document to carry out our activity. Firstly, María and I read the document as the same time as we underlined the words that we didn´t understand. Then, we translate these words and it was easier to have the correct information of the document and to earn new vocabulary. After that, we read the complete article other time to have clear the important ideas. and we started to summarize. On the other hand, the second day we wrote on a paper comparing the differences between traditional history and new history. When the class finished we gave our activity to her. From my point of view, this activity was very useful because we learn the differences of both types of history working by ourselves, so when we finished María and I feelt so ...

  17/10/2017 PROYECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING III Today we advance a lot in the proyect because we divided the work. On the one hand, María Pérez has been working on the authors like Iván Illich. We learned that this author defend the idea of deschooling in his book. On the other hand, María Gil and I were working on the present of this topic. We found differents internet pages, with lots of opinions,  which we use to make a summary. Laura and Marta have developed the context and in deschooling dangers. At the end, we spent time looking for photos. We have to read again the APA style to know how to do the proyect in this way.  From my point of view, we have worked deeply the two hours and the result has been effective.

10/10/2017 PROYECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING II Last week we were preparing a group work. We have to focus on an interesting topic called deschooling. First of all, we went to the library to consult some information about this topic where we found an old book which really helped us to develop some of the questions.What we were surprised was that the book was of sociology.  Furthermore, we looked for some information on the internet but it was insufficient so we were a little confused. At the end of the session, we share our knowledge about this topic which is a good way to learn different points of views and we put some photos to make the work attractive.

03/10/2017 PROYECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING. First of all we went to the computers room and the teacher explained us what information we had to search and where we could find it.  Secondly we looked for information in spanish to understand what the topic is about and after that we tried to start the proyect in english. Since she told us we had to use google academic we looked for some information about the topic there.  In the second hour of history class we focused on the first three things we have to look for: context, contents and aims. About the context we found exactly what the topic is and we took notes to compare it with different information we got from other pages.  We found the content`s information a little difficult so we decided to go to the library tomorrow and try to find something better.  At the end of the hour we looked for the aims, we took some notes but the class was over so we couldn´t finish everything.  We are so excited about...

The power of vulnerability Brene Brown is a researcher-storyteller. In the video she wants to expand perception. Her story started when she was a student and her teacher said: if you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist. She wanted to understand things. Brene focuses on connection explaining that if we want to be connected we have to let us see because the shame is the fear of disconnection. Her year of researching turned to six years plenty of stories. She explains that the vulnerability is the core of shame but it is also the starting point of creativity,  belonging and love. What she learned was that we numb vulnerability. She finishes saying that the most important thing is that we are enough.