In the currrent semester I have seven courses and two assistantships. One of the courses that I'm taking is educational inclusion and attention to diversity by Mauricio López. I can´t say that is my favourite subject, because my favourite subjects are the assistantships that I have, but for the moment, I want to talk about that subject. The subject of educational inclusion and attention to diversity is about the inclusive paradigm in the education. In few words, that paradigm is about an educational system for all the student, without barriers to diversity of the people. Also, this paradigm is about teaching practices that would be change in relation to that diversity in students.
I like that subject because the dynamics of the classes are varied and it can be funny sometimes. For example, the other day, we have a plenary session about different texts of the subject, after that, we have to make teaching materials which reflect that discussion. In this subject I have learnt about the little differences between perspectives inside the paradigm, for example, I have learnt about the different perspectives of equality, like the perspective of Raws or the perspective of Amartya Sen. In the first class, Mauricio asked about our interests in the subject and I said that that subject is very important to work in the area of educational psychology and I really think that, because in other blogs, I talked about my interest on this area.
Day 6: Postgraduate studies?
Well, I really don't think about postgraduate studies in this moment, because I prefer to focus on finish my undergraduate program. Think about the posgraduate studies cause me a little anxiety. I think that we need go step by step. But I'm a idealistic person and I think about leaning that I want for my future. In that context, I think about the possibility of take lessons of sign leanguage, because I think that is very necessary in the education area. In the same line, I want to join a course about the topics related to the inclusive education, but I don't want to take that course in a university or an institute, I want to learn this in courses that be managed by popular education organisations.
Also, I want to take courses of english out of the university, because I don't enjoy the english now (nothing personal), because I'm taking other responsabilities in the semester and I can't cumply the tasks in the week. For this reason, I want to take a course out of the university, when I finish my pundergraduate program.
One of the pendings of my life, is take a course of programming, because I think that I have soft skills, but I didn't develop it yet. Yes, I want to be a "hacker" like Elliot. Well, that is all...not really, but is all that I can think now. Bye.
Also, I want to take courses of english out of the university, because I don't enjoy the english now (nothing personal), because I'm taking other responsabilities in the semester and I can't cumply the tasks in the week. For this reason, I want to take a course out of the university, when I finish my pundergraduate program.
One of the pendings of my life, is take a course of programming, because I think that I have soft skills, but I didn't develop it yet. Yes, I want to be a "hacker" like Elliot. Well, that is all...not really, but is all that I can think now. Bye.
Day 5: Getting the daily food
When I think about my future job, only comes one idea to me, I want to work in a job site related to education. I think that the influence of my mother's job is big (Educadora de Párvulos), but I really enjoy the topics related to education, and more expecially, the childrens. I think that the current educational system is obsolete and I want to show another ways to educate, that is the reason to work in a job site related to education. Now I need to say, where? Well, I think that I want to job in a school or any educational project, like popular schools, for example. I think that the school is more like a indoors job, but the other project can be considered like a mixture between outdoors an indoors. When i think that I prefer the way of the educational projects and in this way, I think that I will travel a lot in the nearby territories. I think that the salary is very important in the adult's life, but I'm not worried about that, because I think that I will get the money so survive in any way (complementary jobs, projects or something). Thanks to my mother and my grandmother, I won't have any debt with the university and that is a big advantage (the Uncle ChileState helped me too, but with a portion of the pay). That may sound idealistic, but i prefer to keep my dreams and no buy them.
Day 4: A picnic on Mars
Hello everyone, today I want to tell you about my favourite book. First of all, I need to say that I don't really have only one favourite book, I have a lot of them. For example, the past class of English I spoke about the Hound of Baskerville, because I needed to speak about one.
Today, I want to write about other of my favourite books: The Martian Chronicles. This wonderful book was wrote by Ray Bradbury, a norteamerican writer who wrote books about mistery, terror and science fiction. He died in 2012, at the age of ninety-two years old.
The book is about a dystopian future where the human race starts to colonize the planet Mars. All of this, starts with expeditions of astronauts in little groups, but the expeditions doesn't work as they want to. After that expeditions, the people in the Earth starts to build space rocket to migrate to Mars, and that starts to create conflicts between the humans. Well, the book is a collection of stories about this context.
The first time that I read was in the primary education, but I don't remember the precise level. After that I read the book other two times, because I only read that book when I really need it. I don't have a favourite quote, but I have a favourite story and that is "Night Meeting". That book makes me feel confused and i really like it, I can read for hours.
Today, I want to write about other of my favourite books: The Martian Chronicles. This wonderful book was wrote by Ray Bradbury, a norteamerican writer who wrote books about mistery, terror and science fiction. He died in 2012, at the age of ninety-two years old.
The book is about a dystopian future where the human race starts to colonize the planet Mars. All of this, starts with expeditions of astronauts in little groups, but the expeditions doesn't work as they want to. After that expeditions, the people in the Earth starts to build space rocket to migrate to Mars, and that starts to create conflicts between the humans. Well, the book is a collection of stories about this context.
The first time that I read was in the primary education, but I don't remember the precise level. After that I read the book other two times, because I only read that book when I really need it. I don't have a favourite quote, but I have a favourite story and that is "Night Meeting". That book makes me feel confused and i really like it, I can read for hours.
Day 3: César was my teacher
Today i will write about a special teacher to me. He taught me history in the primary education, also he was my head teacher for two years, but i don't remember the years or the level when that happened. His name is César Figueroa and he was over sixty years when he taught me. He was a big person (at least he looked like that), he had a black hair and he has a bald spot. He had little glasses and he wore a light brown jacket frequently. Well, now I need to say why he inspired me and that it's simple and complex at the same time. The simple part is because he had a different way to teach history, he taught history through drawings. He drew all the scenes in a historic period in a transparent film and later he placed the film in the overhead projector. The complex part in this history is the change that he inspired in my vision of the education. In his classes, the history come alive, the history looked like a comic, and a good one. After that, I never back to see the classes in the same way and now I'm so greatful of him and I remember him with affection.
Day 2: "En Orbita" festival
When I think in concerts in my life, there are a few of them, because I only have gone to a few concerts. Despite this, I had the luck of assist to a festival wherein participated my favourite band, "Cigarettes after Sex". The name of the festival was "En Orbita" and it took place in the planetary of Santiago. In that festival there are many bands along the day in three different stages. that day I arrived early in the morning to listen new bands and meet them. That was a long day, because I only ate something in the morning in my house, later I didn't eat anything in the festival, because all the food was very expensive. In the day I met a few bands that I liked it, but I was waiting for only a band. They performed in the end of the festival, they was the last band that participated in the festival and y really really enjoy it. I was take my camera to the festival, but with my favourite band, I only recorded few moments in the concert, the rest of the time i was use to enjoy the loud bass and the atmosphere. Cigarettes after Sex is an indie band that can categorise as dream pop or shoegazing.
Day 1: the country I'd like to visit
Since I was a child, I wanted to visit Italy, but I'm not interested in all locations of that country, I will explain that in the next lines. Italy is a country is known for its buildings and structures, many of which was created in the Roman Empire. I'm interested in the architecture and the buildings and structures in that country are so beautiful to me. That is the biggest reason to visit Italy for me, I want to walk in the streets without looking to the front and only fixing my eyes to the facades of the houses and the other buildings. Also I want to walk in the fields and the low hills that you can see in the pictures.
My interest in the architecture of some locations in Italy was feed by my experience in a videogame. The videogame take place in Italy on Renaissance and the game mechanics are oriented to the parkour in the cities of Italy. For example, the first game take place in Florence and the digitisation of the city is really awesome. This gave me more motivation to visit sometime the city and another locations of the country. There are locations that I don't want to visit like the Vatican, because I only want to see it burn.
I would like to work and live in that country and travel across the different locations on the weekends. I would stay many years living in that country and I want to meet new people and continue learning the Italian.
My interest in the architecture of some locations in Italy was feed by my experience in a videogame. The videogame take place in Italy on Renaissance and the game mechanics are oriented to the parkour in the cities of Italy. For example, the first game take place in Florence and the digitisation of the city is really awesome. This gave me more motivation to visit sometime the city and another locations of the country. There are locations that I don't want to visit like the Vatican, because I only want to see it burn.
I would like to work and live in that country and travel across the different locations on the weekends. I would stay many years living in that country and I want to meet new people and continue learning the Italian.
The longest semester
This semester was full of interesting things and many events. I will start with the good things. First, i was able to meet the different main streams of Psychology and I was so happy for that. Another important thing was the Feminist Revolution in the country and especially in FACSO. It was a necesary social movement to change, to some extent, the perspective of many people. Obviously, take english three with Miss Carolina was the best choice that I was able to take.
But there are also problems, such as the disappointment about some subjects of Psychology. I hated the planning of Community Psychology and I decided to missing classes of this subject. That was a bad idea to the evaluations, but I assumed the responsibility. Other situation that have not worked so well, was the end of the semester. I think that it was the worst in all these years. The reason had been that the last three weeks, in Psychology we had evaluations each day. These evaluations included test, group works and personal essays. With that, we felt exhausted and we had not rest in those three weeks. I think that in this semester, i learned more in comparison with the others semesters and that was a great achievement to me.
I enjoyed this class, truly.
But there are also problems, such as the disappointment about some subjects of Psychology. I hated the planning of Community Psychology and I decided to missing classes of this subject. That was a bad idea to the evaluations, but I assumed the responsibility. Other situation that have not worked so well, was the end of the semester. I think that it was the worst in all these years. The reason had been that the last three weeks, in Psychology we had evaluations each day. These evaluations included test, group works and personal essays. With that, we felt exhausted and we had not rest in those three weeks. I think that in this semester, i learned more in comparison with the others semesters and that was a great achievement to me.
I enjoyed this class, truly.
"Strange things"
In the last years I have experienced many changes in my life. Everyday, I learn more about myself and my relationships with the other people. When i started to study psychology, i had another idea about the career. After that, in the subsequent semesters, I learned more about the epistemology and I understood, that the science, is one of many paradigms in the life in general. That changed my conception of the world and maked me thing about all my mindset and my behaviors. For first time, I felt truly happyness with some of my friends. But isn't all good, there are bad time that I had to overcome, especially the past semester (or past year). However, those are learning to the life and we need to go on. Other change that i saw in myself, is the willingness that i have now to hang out with my friends. Before, I was not so sociable and I stayed in my house. Well, I like to write about this, because it is a good chance to realize the changes that i had in different aspects of my life. Finally, I need to say that I like my changes and I want to learn more about everything.
Clinical Psychology
In the current semester, we had five subjects about the mainstream of Psychology: Clinical, Educational, Juridical, Community and Occupational. I liked the subjects of Clinical and Educational. But if i need to choose, I choose the Clinical Psychology.
First of all, the organization of the subject is perfect to me, in contrast with the others subjects of the semester. Because, the teachers make clear instructions about the two papers of the semester and about the dates of the subject.
The teachers are also nice and dynamic in their classes, except one of them. The assistants are nice too and their sessions are very productive.
The subject matter it's so interesting to me and it make me think about my future employment. The focus of the clinical interviews is comprehensive and ethical, for this reason I really enjoy that matter.
In class, we have to listen a presentation of the teacher about a particular theme and elaborate questions about the class. In some sessions, we have a practical application of the matter that we learn in class. In the assistantships, we watch chapters of a serie about a clinical Psychologist of Argentina (fiction character). The serie is called "En terapia" (Latinoamerican version of "In Treatment").
First of all, the organization of the subject is perfect to me, in contrast with the others subjects of the semester. Because, the teachers make clear instructions about the two papers of the semester and about the dates of the subject.
The teachers are also nice and dynamic in their classes, except one of them. The assistants are nice too and their sessions are very productive.
The subject matter it's so interesting to me and it make me think about my future employment. The focus of the clinical interviews is comprehensive and ethical, for this reason I really enjoy that matter.
In class, we have to listen a presentation of the teacher about a particular theme and elaborate questions about the class. In some sessions, we have a practical application of the matter that we learn in class. In the assistantships, we watch chapters of a serie about a clinical Psychologist of Argentina (fiction character). The serie is called "En terapia" (Latinoamerican version of "In Treatment").
Uchile´s Repository
Link: http://repositorio.uchile.cl/
Yes, it is so academic, but it is so useful too and i dont know about an another website related to my career. That website is a storage of investigations made by the people who belong to the University of Chile. For example, you can find thesis or doctoral thesis. In the site there are categories of search, according to: comunities and collections, date of publication, author, title and subject. Futhermore, there is a presentation of the website and how to use it. There are also different links to other websites of the university and website of others research storages (latinnoamerican and worldwide).
I usually visit the website when i need to make a research in a subject of my stuudy program. But in my free time, i usually dont visit the site, because i dont like to read investigations in the life, although i know that i should. I like this site, because is easy to use it and is friendly with a person who dont know about search incestigations on internet.
Yes, it is so academic, but it is so useful too and i dont know about an another website related to my career. That website is a storage of investigations made by the people who belong to the University of Chile. For example, you can find thesis or doctoral thesis. In the site there are categories of search, according to: comunities and collections, date of publication, author, title and subject. Futhermore, there is a presentation of the website and how to use it. There are also different links to other websites of the university and website of others research storages (latinnoamerican and worldwide).
I usually visit the website when i need to make a research in a subject of my stuudy program. But in my free time, i usually dont visit the site, because i dont like to read investigations in the life, although i know that i should. I like this site, because is easy to use it and is friendly with a person who dont know about search incestigations on internet.
Music lover
As I mentioned in my other blogs, i really love the music and that is my passion. Well, i dont like all types of musical genres. For example, i dont like the metal (in general, i like few songs). My favourite genres are shoegaze and dream pop. When i listen music and particularly that genres, i feel the emotion of the lyrics or the melodies. Sometimes i close the door of my room, i turn the speaker louder and i only drop my body in the bed. My favorite group is "Cigarettes after sex" and when i listen their songs, i feel so calm and i really enjoy every second of song. Also, i relate the events of my life with a song or a piece of music. I think that the music shouldn´t be underestimate in the school or the education in general. We live in the music. For example, we dance with music, we think the songs or sometimes we talk with the music (when you relate a song with the situation). I think that all the art is so important, but my passion is the music and i am happier with it.
Free Penguin
This is my favorite picture. This is one of the photographs of an album that i made some time ago and i uploaded to my personal Facebook with the name of "Pingüino Libre". I was trying to tell a simple and adorable story. This picture represents the confinement of a penguin and is the first photo of the album. I really like how the light crosses the fence and touch the skin of the penguin. With my mom, we bought that penguin of wool fielt, because we love them. I really love the focus in this picture, this represents the penguin´s thoughts about his confinement and the desire for freedom. For the peace of mind of the readers, after this picture, the penguin finally was freed. Why the penguin was in prison? Nobody knows and you can make that story if you want.
The art as a extension of yourself
I really love the art! I believe that in the art, you can express feelings, thoughts, ideas and many other things. For example, in the music, you can describe a season of the year, as the "Four Seasons" of Vivaldi. You also can express happyness, sadness, even you can express the tedius routine. Another example are the movies, you can show the entire life of a person, a real story or a fictitious story, represent an era, or just tell a story. These two arts are my favorites but i like the others too. Well, i belive that when you make a piece of art, you are giving up part of yourself. I always forgot that i love to write. My favorite genre is the horror and i write short horror stories, but i am so shy and i don't show my stories to many people. i believe that i have to trust someone to show it.
Headphones, my loves
First of all, i need to say that i love the music so much! With the wonderful headphones i can disconnect of the rest of the world when i need urgently. But that is not the only way to use the headphones, you can also use to see the world with a different perspective. You can see the conversation of the people while you are listening "Daughter" (yeah, i am depressed today). I know two types of headphones: "in-ear" and "over-ear". I frequently use the in-ear headphones (earphones), because i believe that headphones are more comfortables to move in the city. That headphones are better to walk in the park, take the bus, except in the subway. When i use the subway i prefer to use the "over-ear" headphones. Despite this, i love all types of headphones and is my favorite pice of tech.
Why psychology?
When i was about fifthteen, i started to be interested in the psychology as a side of the philosophy. In third year of secondary, at the subject of philosophy, i learned about the classical theories. After that, i started to think that i liked the mathematics (yeah, that isn't true), because my partners or my family said that. So, i started to think that the engineering was my path. Despite this, psychology was always as the second option in my PSU´s essays. In October (Inktober) of the same year that i gived the PSU, i decided to take psychology as the first option. Well, now im here, writing in english (or trying) in a english class, in Facso, in the world...Ok, i need to say that im happy with the study program that i selected and with my learning in this program.
A entire life with myself
Well, how can i start this?.. i dont like to talk about my first years of life, because is boring to this situation. I will start with my first friends (or that i regarded as a friend). My first friend was Emerson, he lived in my street and we played usually. Then, i entered the Kindergarden and Lenguage School (because i had problem with the pronunciation of the letter "r"). I stayed in the same school since Kinder to sixth year. This school is located in front of the Metro Quinta Normal. After that, i entered the INBA (yes, the INBA is located near to Quinta Normal too). In this lyceum i meet great friends to my life, even i currently meet with a couple of them. Finally i arrives the university and meet wonderful and special people that make my days happy.
Jelou
I´m Alvaro, but the people call me Alvin, Alvarito, Alvaricoque, Alvarticio, Alro, Alvacio. I really like to write, but in English is more difficult to me. Still, i love to learn everything especially this language. I hate when i have to introduce myself in a text, but a lot of people love it so I´m happy with that. Well, see you later dear reader.
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