Historia y corrientes internacionales de la educación

INDIVIDUAL EXPOSITIONS  On the one hand, Pablo has done an individual project based on Montessorie. We have improved our knowledge about her theory. Pablo used the strategy of questions and answers so it was funny.  On the other hand, Marcos has explained international programmes of education. He did a video explaining it. It was really funny so we learnt in a original way,

VISITS   We did two exits in this subject. One of them we went to the museum of education at University of Complutense where we could observe the education of the past and the present. It was very interesting to know all the instruments that are used to teach. What I liked the most was the reality map since it seemed very original to me. The second visit was to a museum of educational books. There a writer he talked about the differents theories of education. He emphasized on Maía Montessorie who defended the own learning process. It was interesting as we learn lots of important aspects.

THEORIES OF EMANCIPATION  Theories of emancioations want to seek answers to the existencial problem of man. That is why education becomes an exercise of awareness of personal and social reality to eradicate illiteracy an d ignorance. The main purpose of education is to transmit values and prepare the human being and it emphasizes the importance of the teacher figure in the interpersonal relationship with students. The main representative author is Paulo Freire who transmitted the pedagogy of hope and he supports the dialogue principle. From my point of view, theories of emancipation are developing in our lives because we want to eradicate illiteracy and ignorance to be critical and creative.

NEW SCHOOL This period were born at the end of XIX century and first time XX century in Europe and one countries of America an Asia. To understand new school we have to recognize some historical root sthat allowed this movement to emerge: technological-Industrial develop,met, democratic sentiment, scientist education, interest of the public opinion and education extension. We have to distinguish between infantil and primary contents. Infantil contents are throw and catch a ball, do quickly movements, imagine monsters, use scissor, copy some capital letter, understand the difference between “same” and “different”, remember part of a history, use forks, spoon and knifes, understand the concept of “time”... However, primary context are linguistic communication, mathematical,science and technology, digital, learn to learn, social and civic, sense of initiative and enterprising spirit, and conscience and cultural.  The aims of new school are th students self-stem, school commun...

DESCHOOLING  Deschooling proposes an education alternative of homeschooling. However, deschooling does not mean to stop learning. In our country, Spain, Deschooling is not legal. It is a way of looking at children and at life so it is based on trust that parents and children will fin the paths. The methods of Deschooling are: playing, household responsabilities, personal interests and curiosity, travelling , books, elective classes, family, mentors and social integration. The main authors are Ivan Illich and Paul Goodman. The first one, replace the school as a large knowledge bank by technological institutions in which every one would have a credit. However, Paul Goodman has some proposals: school not compulsory, class attendance should be free, school descentralization and create small school units. To sum up, unschooling provides a unique opportunity to develop in a mature environment. From my point of view, Deschooling it is a self-directed education but it is neces...

27/12/2017 THE ENLIGHTEMENT  The enlightement is a cultura time that took place in Europe during th XVII-XVIII centuries. It proclaims the power of the reason over nature to conquer the progress, happiness and health of men at an indivudual and social level. According to this, the main purpose was to modernize the country and improve subjects and quality life by combining absolute monarchy with enlightement. It is interested: economic reactivation, cristicism of some aspects in the social reality, interest in the new liberal politics ideas and improvement of education system. Enlightement despotism did not become a  ew form of government as it maintained the privileges of states.  Jhon Locke, english author,  thought that early education was essential in shaping an adult. Public schools appeared at this time. There were also schools for poor people (Charity Schools) and better schools for upper classes( borarding schools). Besides, tutor were hired to teac...

EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES   The context of Middle Ages is divided in three periods: early Middle Ages, high Middle Ages and late Middle Ages. The church has been very important in this ages because it solidez source of moral and doctrinal principles. The aims of Middle Ages were three: they wanted a theocentric social action inspired by the church, they wanted that the fundamental end of education has to be the practice of good and they were reaching the eternal happiness.  The main representative author was Thomas Aquina because he thought the common benefit for all. From my point of view, in this period the common people were slaves of the knowledge of the church.  The practice that this group used to make us better understand their exposure was a Kahoot.

21/11/2017 EDUCATION IN GREECE The history of Greece is divided in four periods: Homeric period, Spartan period, Athenian period and Hellenistic culture. All of them have common characteristics like anthopocentrism (man of the centre of education), being social, autonomy and linguistic plurality.  First of all, it is important to know the contents and the methodology of Greece period. When boys had 7 years old he had to start his cultural formation and to go to the school. There they studied three subjects:  grammarian (they learned how to write and to read), musical education because it was an essential part of any culture and gymnastics.The subjects of Greek education were religion, literature, music and Gymnastic.  Thanks to quilibers there were decisive innovations in the education so they assumed educator’s paper.  In Sparta period they based in military aptitudes.  Girls were practicing many sports because they were trying to prepare robust ...

20/11/2017 EDUCATION IN ROME The history of Rome is divided in three periods: first republic, medium republic and high empire. The contents it is also divided in three types of education: elemental education, secondary education and superior education. First of all, on elemental education children of 7-12 years studied reading, writing and arithmetic. Secondly, on secondary education children of 12-16 read poems and commented texts. Last one, superiors education was for children that were 17-21 because they studied discourses.  For kids aged up to 11-12 the aims were to learn how to read, write and basic mathematics. For older children they have to do public speaking, writings and practical knowledge.  The methodology of education in Rome is divided in the Trivium (retoric, grammar and dialects) and the Quadrivium ( arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music). The main authors were Marco Tulio Cicerón, Lució Anneso Séneca, Marco Fabio Quintiliano and Plutarco. ...

17/11/2017 EDUCATION IN ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS This project is divided in three civilizations: India, Egypt and Mesopotamia.  On the one hand, India’s civilizations began on the banks of Indian’s River. Indian’s early invaders were the aryans, who conquered India in 1500 B.c. This people did cultural changes and exerted powerful social and educational influences.  The main important subjects were The Four Vedas, Six Vedangas, The Upanishads, Puranas and Tarka shastra. Besides, the aims were to provide good training to young men and woman, preservation and enrichment of culture, character and personality development and cultivation of noble ideas and also ethical and biological education. To achieve this objectives the methodology was divided in memorization, story telling, question and answer method and hands on method. The most important authors were Vyasa and Mahabharata.  At the present, Rabindranath Tagore reduced the use of textbook learning in favo...

13/11/2017 Today we met Alejandra to make a roleplay. A roleplay is to expose the work to correct things before exposing it to our partners. It is very useful to do a roleplay because we can improve our project by learning from mistakes. The teacher said to us that our work has been good. We have to change some little things and add some important information like deschooling in Spain and the different between deschooling and abandoment. It was a productive and interesting experience.