Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Culture Questionnarie


This post wil be about my experience doing the field work about culture. During the survey differents tendencies and points of view were exposed in the answers of people related to interests,knowledge of the country,typical customs, language and so on.
In general, I was very surprised to know that the most difficult answer was about how would you define "culture". Only a few words people could said about it. Why does this happen? For example, people think that culture is a way of life related with values, custom, beliefs and behaviors in society. In other words, how you see the world around you. So, what is our identity?and as chileans how our language shape the way we think?
Another important thing during the questionnarie was the attitudes from these people. Some of them were not interested or lost and others were kind and enthusiastics.
In short, the opinions were influenced because of the time that we are living or just preferences from the people. The diversity of people`s answers help us to reflect about culture and how people identify themselves with the country.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

CulTUrE, CiviLizAtiOn & CRiTicaL tHiNkinG

I rather like to tell my thoughts about it...
The word civilisation is often used especially when it refers to a particular society in a particular place or at time. Likewise, Culture goes beyond knowledge and deeper in civilization becaue culture is the core that unifies people and makes history of it. on the other hand, we already know that there are many definitions of critical thinking but it's important to disscuss the fact that how teachers promote critical thinking in school.
Teachers must integrate critical thinking skills into all aspects of learning. In fact,thinking logically is a way of learning.
At each school, critical thinking must be practiced in each suject. However,some people think that this means hard work for the teacher because it's much easier to teach students to memorize facts than emphasize thinking,analysis and opportunities to organize ideas and support value judgments.