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.

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.

Expectations

Hi!
I`ll start writing about my expectations of this course.....
Honestly, I have great expectations from this course and I think that Culture & Civilization will be a great challenge to all my classmates and personally I expect to get clearly involved in each class with all the key times of British and U.S culture and civilization. At the same time, I`d like to participate in the process of critical thinking about differents contexts of the history, education, language and so on.
On the other hand, as a future English teacher I like the diversity in terms of activities and contents, so...When the time comes, I expect to learn from different experiences, and to have fun learning something meaningful and new every class in order to increase my knowledge.
All in all, I expect that everyone could express their thoughts freely and share opinions through our reading of the texts and thinking about why it is important to know that.

cheerio!