Inquiry Task

Hola a todos

Siempre que se acerca Diciembre y Navidad recuerdo un post que escribí sobre lo que hablamos en clase acerca de los Reyes Magos y la relación que tiene con el desarrollo descubrir que los padres son los reyes. Siempre me ha cautivado ese suceso vital, ese momento. Imagino que ha contribuido a ello vivirlo con mis cuatro sobrinos. A falta de hijos, de momento sólo he podido compartir esta experiencia de manera más cercana con mis sobrinos, los hijos de mis dos hermanos. Y la verdad es que disfruto mucho viendo cómo lo viven y sobre todo cómo han cambiado progresivamente en su manera de vivirlo.

Hace seis años, escribí este post. Os invito a leerlo y a ver qué os parece. Si queréis podéis compartir aquí vuestras experiencias al respecto. Lo que hago en él es analizar el descubrimiento de que los reyes magos son los padres en contraste con ese tipo de experiencia que también se vive en otras culturas, desde una perspectiva de análisis ritual, que es una de mis especialidades.

Aparte y como extensión complementaria os invito a leer el siguiente post, escrito por uno de los psicólogos actuales que más admiro, al menos uno de los que más he aprendido: John McWhirter. Plantea la siguiente situación:

"Six years ago, just before Christmas, a colleague told me that her 8 year old daughter was very upset because her teacher told the class of 8 year olds that there was no Father Christmas. The teacher said that of course there were three Kings as they were described in the bible but as there was no reference to Father Christmas he therefore did not exist. She said that now they were 8 years old they should know the truth.

While this was technically correct for a teacher in a catholic school with regard to the bible I disagreed with her “truth” and very much with her intervention and while I couldn’t help the whole class I was sure that I could help one individual! "

Si queréis leer qué tipo de intervención realiza, clicad el siguiente enlace y a ver igualmente qué os sugiere. 

Un saludo

Alejandro

Making connections

I feel I like writing my reflections in our blog. This makes me think more about them.
 

To write this post has taken me more time than other posts because I am using the method that we learnt in the previous “procesos del aprendizaje” lesson. I was used to take a paper and a pen, and then, just write.
It is better to do a scheme firstly.

This is my first time, so I need to practise more.

 

I decided to write a post while I was reading the cognitive development text. There is an activity very simple apparently: Kids have to classify different foods.
When I read this, I remembered our first class. We put in order our pictures about development.

How many differences are there between children and us? I consider these activities are very similar. I don´t know if I am right.

The most important part of these activities is the process that students use to get their classification and the reasons they give.

Both are INDUCTIVE DISCOVERY.
It is necessary to organize the information in order to get a new category. Every category is acceptable because the aim is learning how to organize.

This activity gave to us the required experience to develop in the future our capacity of organisation.
For example, when we made the summary of the classes, we made connections between all the classes. And we organized each one in three parts: What? How? Why?

 

I really don´t know if the connections I am making are in the correct way…
I will read more texts in relation with this topics.

 

Laura Sanz.

The exam is closer

El examen se acerca y el ciberespacio ha arrojado la siguiente conversación mantenida entre Alejandro y Gloria, acerca del examen. Os sugiero su lectura: clicad  esto.

Our exam

In relation with my previous post which was about obligation, I want to say that many of us prefer obligation than freedom. If we have freedom, sometimes we don´t do some activities like throw rubbish or study.

How many of us have ever searched for information or read some texts about this subject this year? Most have not done it (I am in this group)
And why not? Because nobody has forced us simply.

The last Thursday (21.11.13) the teacher told us that we are going to have an exam on Tuesday.
What are we doing this weekend? We are reading (like crazy people) all the texts that Alejandro has given to us. I consider myself sometimes immature because I prefer that other people obligate me. I need to change my mind.

 

Moreover, I think that our teacher pretends to change our concept of exam. We are used to study X units and then write them down individually in a paper. If we can memorise it the day of the exam, we will pass the exam. It doesn´t matter if the following week we (the students) can remember the units. We already have a mark.

Students should be evaluated every moment. It is very important their/our development and the progress.

We are not use to work with this type of evaluation, because of that, it is hard to us sometimes.
But we will get it, I hope.

Laura Sanz.

My favourite class

14.11.13 that was my favourite class until now. 

Alejandro had gave us a text “Sobre no estar en pareja”, I wanted to read it but I hadn´t got enough time. It didn’t matter because the teacher hadn´t forced us.

That day we speak about obligation. Our teacher said that sometimes obligation is counter-productive. It is true! I am right now writing my own reflection in our blog despite this is voluntary. Simply I want to do it.

We have a blog for each subject and we have to write on them. It is horrible for me. In my opinion, when someone orders us to do something, if we do it, we usually do it without interest because of the obligation. We should reflect it.

In this subject I have learnt that we have different types of attachment, for example, with some people. We felt this when Alejandro didn´t come, part of the class missed him. We have attachment with animals (pets) but with objects too. We felt this with the pens that our teacher gave to us. But it is important to know that our attachments are different. Some people wanted that Gloria was our teacher and some of us doubted about who were the real owner of the pens.

 

On 14.11 we realised that we can have attachment with activities like reading, doing sport, listening to music or being in love. I have never thought about it but it is true too.
There is a problem: obligation. 

This breaks sometimes the attachment between activities and us. A lot of teenagers hate reading, due to their teachers have forced them to do it.

 

In conclusion I propose to look for motivations when we do different activities and try to create attachment with them. 

It is important that we enjoy whatever we make and do it with freedom.



Laura Sanz.

Not bad as a funny starter to the new part...

I found this video I though it would work as a starter for the new part of the subject. It is as if Piaget was introduced by some american "Muchachada Nui" perspective, so to speak.

Well.... enjoy it... I guess...

ATTACHMENT

Last day Alejandro gave us a text that talk about a situatuion of a child who wants to read a book by himself and the same child older who is force to do it. After read it Alejandro said us to make groups and speak about the text and to say our opinion about it. my group consisted of Ramiro, Saadet, Jesse, Ainara, Raul, Isa and me: Andrea.

We had to to find relations between what we were talking about attachment and the text. Saadet started saying that it's important not to force someone to reed, no matter if it's a child or an adult person, because if you force someone to reed he/she is not going to like it. There must be a conection between the person and the book, and if you want that this person reed because you think it's important to him/her, you have to help him/her to find that conection. For example, childrens like play. If you find the way to make to reed a game, childrens aare going to like to do it. 

After explain that, we tried to find an other situation like this. We decided to use the relation between a person and a mobile phone because we want to make a comparation. If you give a mobile phone to a children and you let him/her use it like he/she wants, the mobile phone is going to be something usefull for him/her. But if you force him/her to use it, he/she is not going to see it like something good for him/her. Everyrhing is about the context. if someone force us to do something that we don't want to do, it won't be an attachment between the object and us, but, if someone give us something and they teach us how to find the good things about it, they explain us why is good for us and help us to use it good, there will be an attachment.