Historia y corrientes internacionales de la educación.

DESCHOOLING AND THEORIES OF EMANCIPATION  On December 15 and January 8, two "deschooling" and "emantipation" expositions took place. In the exposition of "deschooling" we learned: that it is not a recipe, therefore it can not be treated as such, it is a way to look at children and life and try to find the best ways to work at home.  This exposition (mine) helped me to learn that school is not the only institution through which one learns and which one teaches, so the child can also learn at home but having the necessary conditions for it. The exposition that speaks of "the theories of emancipation" emphasizes: that the person is the center of the world, that education is an exercise of awareness, the figure of the teacher is very important and the school must have a community character. This exposition is closely related to the previous one because both deal with the character of education in different fields. Of both exh...

NEW SCHOOL On January 9 the "New school" exposition took place. We can highlight the fundamental characteristics and objectives of the project: the self-esteem of the students, the relationship of the parents with the teachers and the center, the exposure of different cultures and respect for them, the creativity of the students and the quality of the studies and the center.  I thought this exhibition was important and interesting because I think it is very important to know in depth the objectives of the new education because it is essential that a teacher knows this, in order to help the student thoroughly to develop completely and perfectly.

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ORGANIZATION  Our colleague Marcos did a work that talked about the international organizations of education, such as, save the children, UNESCO, OECD ... In his speech he spoke of the rights of education, who supports these rights and the most important organization that defends them. This exposition seemed fundamental because many times teachers are not aware that they are dealing with children, with small people, and that not in all countries is the same, that is, in Spain, children do not learn the same or in the same conditions as African children, but they do have the same rights. For the  activity he asked us a series of questions.

On December 19 we went to a talk that talked about the new way of teaching today.  What I learned from that talk is that today technologies are influencing a lot in education in fact is fundamental.  He also talked about María Montessori and her way of teaching and how parents should apply it too.  I found it a fun and entertaining talk that taught me things that I can apply to daily life and the field of teaching.

MARÍA MONTESSORI AND THE EDUCATION MUSEUM  On December 4 our classmate Pablo, exposed Maria Montessori. The ideas he showed us: education is based on a triangle, love refers to respect, freedom with responsibility and it is necessary and fundamental to have trust and patience with children when we are educating them. All this was exposed because the next day on December 5 we went to the education museum of the Complutense University.  There they showed us in the first part the main differences between the education of now and the education of before, the difference between the things that were taught and learned. It call myself a lot of attention as they treated women and the difference between boys and girls that was very big.  In the second part they taught us the different teaching methods, that is, how they were taught, it is a very interesting museum and all the educators should go.

"THE ENLIGHTENMENT" On November 27 and 28, "The Enlightenment" was exposed.  The most important contents were: the economic reactivation, the liberal political ideas and the improvement of the educational system. It is divided into the illustration in Spain and in Europe. For the activity they made a very funny game that helped especially the unity of the class. The game consisted of a card game where the group that was exposing asked us a question and the group that knew it or the one that played it had to imitate the sound of the animal of the other group (previously assigned).  It seemed like a simple and very dynamic practice that made you stay focused all the time.

THE MIDDLE AGES  On November 28 and December 1, our colleagues exposed The Middle Ages. In it they explained that  in The Middle Ages god was the center of everything, memory was the main pillar and was intended to seek eternal happiness.  It is divided into 3 periods: Early middle ages, high middle ages and late middle ages. What I have learned in this exhibition is that The Middle Ages  is a period that aims to change all of the above because it had not worked properly. Activity was carried out a kahoot.

ROME On November 21 and 24, "Rome" was exposed. In it they taught us what was the "vir bonus",  their character was fundamentally moral and intellectual, they had a great communicative ability and success in argumentation.  It is divided into three periods, the monarchy, the republic and Hellenism (lucus school, grammar school and rethor school) and education during the Empire.  For the activity they made a kahoot. This exhibition has seemed interesting to me because I have discovered that many of the things that we do nowadays in education are also done years ago.

GREECE On November 21 and 24 in class, our classmates exposed "Greece".   Ancient Greece is divided into four periods: homeric period, spartan period, athenian period and hellenistic period.  They also explained their characteristics within the world of education: anthropocentrism, autonomy and linguistic plurality (grammar, music and gymnastics). For the activity they realized a kahoot, a game of questions that also realized more groups later. I really liked this exhibition because I knew the basics of Greece but I didn't know anything related to education.

ANCIENT CIVILIZACIONS On November 17 our classmates exposed "Ancient civilizations". In the exposition they told us that civilizations grew where the soil was fertile, near the sea. They also showed us that the woman stayed at home and that education was only for young people. The three civilizations were India, Egypt and Mesopotamia. They did a very interesting activity, during the exhibition they gave us virtual glasses of 3D and during they were telling us the exhibition, the glasses showed what they were narrated. I find it a very curious technique because we were stuck inside the exposition and it was impossible to get distracted.

COMPARATIVE EDUCATION As I said the other day Alejandra put us a video which was trying to show the differences between Shouth Korea´s education and Findland's education. Today we continued with that. Firstly we answered the question related to the video, it was about the main education´s differences between both countries. Secondly Alejandra project a Power Point with some questions and their answers. With the questions we made a little debate because some classmates had different opinions. I think this is a good method to learn because this forces you to think, so the main ideas of the topic you think them firstly and then when you know the correct answer that is usually very similar to the one you had previously thought, the information is recorded in your head much faster.

PROJECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING VI Today we were making the word we should give to Alejandra in a few days.  Firstly we read the information we have on the Power Point to know what information we must put on it. After it, we searched for a video, this was difficult because we wanted a short and entertaining video and not all the videos were like this. We don´t find it yet. We revised the APA´s part again because we were not sure about what we put on the presentation and if we have something worng our job is not going to have any positive marks and we don´t want that. In the second hour we tried to learn our part of the project because we want to explain it as clear as possible for our classmates. When  somebody had already learned it, she told her part to the rest of the group, to correct what they thought it was wrong and the pronunciation. For my point of view this is the most difficult part of the project because English is not our mother tongue so we need to ha...

EDUCATION IN FINLAND AND IN SOUTH KOREA   Today I could not assist to class because I woke up with a very strong headache but I arrived in the class 5 minutes before the end so I talked with Alejandra trying to know what they had done, she said to me that they were seeing a video which talked about why Finland and South Korea are in the top of the education´s rank  and she told me too that I should answer a question. I made it at home, so I saw the video trying to understand the main ideas and I tried to answer the question as good as possible.

PROJECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING V Yesterday Alejandra sent to us a message it said that we should finish our project between today and on tuesday.  My group decided to look for some videos because we have finished our presentation in Power Point the last day. Firstly the videos I found were not very interesting, ther were very bored and they did not say the most important information about deschooling. This part of the project took us at least 30 minutes. The rest of the time we decided the activity we are going to make in class with our classmates, firstly we did not have enough ideas so we wrote on a paper the ideas we had and try to have more or remodel the ones we had. The last few minutes we made the APA´s part of the project but we did not have finished everything, so the next day we should continue with that. I like making this project I can know my classmates more and I can learn a lot of deschooling which is a topic that at first is not interesting, but then when you...

PROJECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING IV Today in the class Andrea and I returned to the library because as I said in the last post of the blog we want to have erything as completed as possible. Andrea and I read another time what we wrote in the last class about deschooling at the present and completed it with more information from the books and internet. When we finished that we put all the information in the power point and returned to the computer room to help the rest of the group. Today our plan was finish most of the work. When each one of us finished our part of the work we read the APA's presentation trying to understand something because the first time we read we do not understand anything, we made a scheme with all the information we had in the power point. For me, it was the first time I read something related to APA so for me all is new and there were some things I don't understood as well as I expected.

 TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND NEW HISTORY III Today in  class Alejandra put us a power point with the main differences between traditional history and new history, it was a summary about the article we read last week. Firstly Alejandra said to us that we should say the differences we captured when we read the article, she completed them with more information. Secondly we saw two videos, one was based on the education today, and it said that the education system we have today is the same as in the past so we don´t have innovation on it and that is no good. The other video talked about the differences between the east and the weast culture and the way to see the world. I think that both videos were very interesting because we learned a lot from them, in the first video we learned that we musn´t have the same education system and we musn´t give in the same way class to all the students because not every children has the same facility to learn. In the second video we t...

TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND NEW HISTORY II Yesterday, Alejandra sent us an email, in it she explained that we should prepare a debate about the topic we worked a few days ago, but the class answered to the email asking for change it to the next day, and Alejandra said yes. Today in class, my classmate and I made a table comparing the differences between both types of history. The table contains the main ideas of the text so we read it a lot of times because we want to have a good mark in the debate. I think this technique is a good idea because with the debate you can learn a lot.   It can help you to learn all the differences, so in the exam is going to be easier to know them. It has been good for us that Alejandra left us more time to prepare it, because my classmate and I could read another time the text and we understood many more things than the first time we read it.

PROJECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING III Today we decided to distribute the work. The first hour Laura and Marta made the power point, María completed the authors and Andrea and I completed Deschooling at the present because as I said the other day, we did not finish that because we got a little bit stressed because we didn't we were looking for. Today we were luckier and we found at least more information than the other day. The second hour we revised what we had done, today and the others days. We decided to read everything we wrote and completed it with more information about it, because we want to have everything as complete as possible. With this job we are learning how to work in groups and how to distribute the work, sometimes it is difficult but we are getting it. We need to read the presentation about APA and made the content work related, because Alejandra said that this is very important, and has a very high score in the work.

PROJECT ABOUT DESCHOOLING II. I n the first part of the last season we worked on  the project of deschooling in the library trying to find a book about the topic, because the information we found on the internet it was insufficient for us. We found a book with very useful information about the topic, so we continue the project, completing the topics we leave the other day. Firstly we finished the aims, completing them with the notes we took the other day in class. When we arrived from the break, we continued with the other topics we didn´t start yet which are the author and deschooling at the present. We returned to the computer room and we tried to find some information about that. We made it in the same way as the other season,  we took notes to compare it with different information we got from other pages.  At the beginning we didn´t find exactly what we were looking for and we were a little bit stressed so we decide to wrote the information in another ...

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND NEW HISTORY. This activity is divided in two days.  The first day Alejandra gave to us a paper with a lot of information about Traditional history and New history, and we must work with our classmate.   Firstly, Andrea and I read the complete article and we underlined the words we didn´t understand, we made that because it was easier for us to collect the most important information if we understand all the words, and we translate into spanish with word-reference Secondly we read the complete article another time, and this time we underlined the principal ideas of the text with their evidences. Second day Alejandra said to us that we must gave her a paper comparing the differences between both types of history.  My classmate Andrea and I wrote on a paper every idea we thought it was important and we tried to summarize it because in the papers Alejandra gave to us there were a lot of important ideas, and if we p...