“Self Evaluation of my academic year (2009)”

Hello, finally I am finishing this process of English learning at the university - I hope it goes well!- and today, I am going to tell you about “Self Evaluation of my academic year (2009)”. In this essay, I will describe the most important events in my academic year and I will try to do an evaluation of all this. To begin with, I need to tell you that this year is very important for me, because it is my last year at the university; I will graduate in December and get my degree in Psychology. As you can imagine, this has been a long process, therefore, this year is not any!. I am feeling very nervous, sad and happy at the same time; since I am going through several changes right now. For this reason, in the following essay, I will talk about those events have happened in this academic year and I will try to reflect on what I am feeling now.

For me, The acadamic year 2009 began the day that we had to take subjects, that is, “in our holidays”. The choice of taking subjects is a very complicated process, because you must be secure about yourself, in order to know in which area you would like to work; and then, to wait for a selection system. For me, it was not easy, due to the fact that I did not know in which area I wanted to focus on. Therefore, I went to talk about this situation with my favorite teacher, who is an educational psychologist. She helped me a lot, because I could choose the best subjects for me: “Educational and School Psychology” and “Education Consultant Institution”. As you can see, my subjects are related to educational psychology.

In the “Educational and School Psychology” subject, I have learned so much about the smooth running of the school and the educational system. Moreover, in this subject, we wrote a very interesting paper about “Mapuche Education”. In this work, my classmate and I interviewed Mapuche people. It was a great experience, because I think that their world view –therefore, their view on education too - is very different and more interesting than our occidental view; because they really develop an integral human being. On the other hand, I have learned so much in the “Education Consultant Institution” subject, because we were working on two projects for one state school. In this place, we made a course about interpersonal relationships, with teachers and students.

In conclusion, I can say that this year has been better than the others, because: I have learned so much (about: Mapuche Education, education system, to work with teachers and students, etc.) and the most important thing is that “I found my professional vocation”, I love educational psychology!. However, I think that next year will be very difficult for me. I will have to do professional internship and my thesis project. Sometimes, I feel that I will not able to do it. Nevertheless, I know that I must trust in my capacities in order to achieve my goals.

Challenges in my discipline...

Hello!,


Today, I must say that the subject of this day is a few difficult. After much thought... I think that, Maybe, the some challenges that my discipline should do are:

Of the Technology area... I think that my career has some problems of resources; our library has few update books... and our laboratory of neuroscience has not the equipment necessary; moreover, its infrastructure is insufficient.

Of the Social Matters area: to treat the social problems since the social sciences; that is, since the sociology, anthropology and psycolhgy.... because if we treat the social problems only since the psychogy...we finish reducing the social problems to the person! - it a a reducctionist look!- . we need share the knowledge with the others careers...

Of the education area: My career have problems with curricular. It is a great problem, because the psychology department reduced a complete year of studies, "to facilitate a continuous syllabus". In this aspect, I consider that my career must improve the superimpose subjects.

The protest of teachers

Hello!

A piece of news I have recently heard of, read in the paper, or watched on TV is "The protest of teachers"

A long time ago, more specifically since the military government , the social condition of the teachers is deficient highly in our city . The military governement introduced a new form to administer the resources in the education, which it will be in hands of the municipalities... In relation whit this, one of the great problems is that the municipalities spended the money of the teachers!!.... and... ey!, the municipalities never gave back the money at the teachers.

Moreover, in the time of the dictadure, the salary of the teachers was considerably reduced, which has brougth several consecuences; as far as the deterioration of the teaching practice... the teachers are not valued as a true "professional".

For those reasons, those last weeks, the teacher has stoped their work -against- to demand their rigths!... because the government must take responsibility of the "historic debt".

This situation affect at the teachers... pricipaly, who work (or they worked) at state schools... But I think, that this situation is a problem of all our society.

I think that my faculty has some problems of resources; our library has few books and the infrastructure is insufficient. Many times, we have to go to the other faculties to find the books that we need!.. or to make the class that we need!.

On the other hand, in the great majority of the career in my facuculty have problems with curricular. It is a great problem, specially to psychology because it was the first career in to change the curriculum; reducing a complete year of studies, "to facilitate a continuous syllabus". In this new implementation, the first years we had very problems, because we had superimpose subjects.

My faculty need more resources and organization. A form to resolve this situation is that
government give most money to the universities..

Election Day

On December of this year, we-"the chileans"- will have to choose a new president; and new deputies and senators!. For me, it will be awful. Today, I don`t know that to do!.

I am registered to vote since four years age. In the time that I decided to vote, I thought that this would have some significance. I was mistaken. Now, I am regretful!... A long time age the democracy does not exist in our country!. More specifically, since political constitution of 1980, because it imposed a system not representative!... and, hey! NO representative in the political, social, economic and even, in the electoral system!!!.... It is not really democratic!!!. The saddest is that it condition keeps till nowadays!!, because the recient gobernment has done nothing for it!!!.

It is awful!!!... I think that my vote is a vote lost!. My possible presidential candidate is very little known =( ... and for me, the other persons running are "interested in travel or robber!" XD. Well, I really hope that the people vote for the goverment plan of every candidate!!!... that they don`t vote for their faces!!!.... The faces lie!!!!

mmm... I have never considered to become a politician. A good political practically give his life for the people, a commitment that I don`t think to be ready to give.

I think that the qualities that a person running must have for president are: a real social commitments; to be a good listener; to know what he/she talking about; to like that the people really participate!, listening really their demands!!

In this aspect... some problems in my country, that I think, require an inmediate solution are: the poverty and inequality!; the political constitution (I think that we must change it!); the inequality in education (I think that we must change the LGE and the evaluation systems); the employment; the environmental contamination; the health systhem...

Religion and learning; what we know

I selected the article "Religion and learning; what we know" wrote by Nick Spencer, because I considerer very interesting that we ask about this relation.

In this article, Spencer reviewed a study of the demographics of belief, with particular reference to the UK; to detailed picture of the class composition of atheism and theism in this place. Here, they relationed two variables a/theism whit socio economic grade.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/05/atheist-religion-education-demographics-class




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Criminal Laws

In the last decades, the crimminality has increased considerably. I think that the principal reason of this are the social iniquity and injustice; and for me, the capitalist economic system is the great risponsible. Nowadays, the government is on the side of big business, forgetting the commun people, especially the poorest.

For this reason, I consider that capital punisment is not a good solution to reduce crimminality. Firts, we must to change the social and economic system... It is a change of structure!, which is not made with more reppresive and harder measure .

On the other hand, there are more cons that pros in to apply capital punishment; for example, there are very innocent people that has been acussed and murdered for a crime that they never committed. Moreover, I think that to apply capital punishment also it is a crime, a great crime!; because all "murder" is a crime against humanity!... against to be human!.

In my life, I has been only once victim of a crime, more especificaly a burglary!. Everything valuable was stolen. How it happened??. I don't know; because I and my family were on holidays. It was awful!; they stolen our family heirloom!. We didn't believe.
Nowadays, I think that we had good luck, because only we lost material goods; and, maybe, the burglars needed money to live?