Historia y corrientes internacionales de la educación

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.

03/11/2017 COMPARISON EDUCATION   Today we started the class resolving the question about the differences between South Korea and Finland education systems. My classmates and I agree with our answers beacause we think that in Korea they spend more time studying than in Finland. However, students are more creative in Finland. Then, Alejandra asked some questions and we participated to show our point of view.  The questions were based on comparison education: issues, purpose... It was an interesting way to learn the unit as we have to reflect before learning the answer. From my point of view, the spanish system of education focused on theory so the students don´t enjoy learning. Besides, teachers are not recognized as important persons but they are the responsables of our future society. In our country we have to open our minds and changes our education system. 

31/10/2017 Deschooling project VI Today was the last day to work on the project. Firstly, my group and I looked for a video of deschooling movement. Besides, my group and I reviewed APA style because it is really important as it has a high punctuation. Furthermore, we have learnt our part as we have to do a role play. When we learnt it we exponed to our group to check it.  We are so proud of our project as we have worked in an orderly and cooperative way.

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...