The proposal by Ken Robinson: Education system and Intelligence. It is possible a Education Integral?

Ken Robison gives us an interesting lecture about the role of creativity in school. According to him, the school system would not be adequate enough to develop the huge potential of creativity that exists in children, suppressed.

As Ken Robinson says, schools kill creativity. According to Robinson, this should be the orientation of the school system since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which would be geared to the needs of the industrial economy, a concern of being "skilled labor" in which people not develop integrally physical and intellectual.

For Robinson, this is a serious problem. Education would serve the "economy" and not to serve the full development of human capabilities. According to him, it is necessary to exploit all the capabilities of human creativity, building an educational system in which each child can develop their full physical and intellectual capabilities. For Robinson, this can be achieved by understanding that human intelligence must be understood from a broad perspective, realizing their emotional side, formed in the social interaction of individuals.

In conclusion, the current structure of the education system should be modified. Their knowledge structures are oppressive, being unable to fully develop the intelligence of children. Reeamplazado be a new type of education system, open to the needs of developing emotional, intellectual and physical persons.

My blogging experience

Hi everyone, this week on my blog I will talk about…well…about my last blog sesión! During these months, I can say I enjoyed very much my blog’s session. It was a good experience, interesting, and that has motivated me in learning the English language.

In general, I enjoyed my session blog because I have learned many new things: to speak better English, to use a blog page to communicate with people around the world, a post to other blog sites... Yes, I can said:I love blogs!.. I am now a fan communication via blog’s sites!

However, in many cases, the post we had to write were a bit boring. Teacher!, this is a problem that needs improvement! It's too boring to talk about “My favorite arqueological website”. This is a bit .. mmmm .. nerd! (or, in chilean language: It is very ñoño!) However, it is well. It is not an English course or not?

Definitely, as I said earlier, this blog has helped me a lot to improve my English. Since I started posting on my blog page, I could communicate with many people in English. New friends from Europe and United States, reading several articles and books in English, writing letters to people who do not understand the Spanish language. All this has been the result, in part, from the constant work that we have had in our blog pages.

I think there are several advantages to take the blog in English class. First, it is very useful as a form of interactive learning. Allows students to learn English from a form of daily communication. Also, it allows communication in English in a way similar to those in everyday life. I think the blog makes it less necessary to the study of English grammar boring classes! About the potential disadvantages of using blog in English classes ... well ... I do not think they exist!

My Favourite Subject

Hi everyone, this week on my blog I will talk about my favourite subject. This term, my favourite subject are Methods and laboratory techniques: Lithic, with Donald Jackson. In general, this course teaches students to recognize archaeological remnants manufactured stone. The idea is to learn to recognize cultural artifacts or tools as distinct from the remnants of original natural stone, not culturally modified. One of the main objectives of this course is learn to recognize stone carving, as well as features that suggest there was some kind of stone artifact (projectile points, knives, scrapers, scrapers, etc). The latter is quite difficult in the beginning ... ! It is difficult sometimes to distinguish one stone from a natural stone employed as an instrument (or waste) culture!

Another objective of this course is to learn to recognize "landscape stone." In short, learning to relate the different elements in a context of lithic production, connected to the sociocultural context in which an event of lithic production occurred in the past. In this way, it is possible to know many aspects of prehistoric society ... only from accounts worked stones! It’s precisely because this, the capabilities of archaeological lithic analysis to uncover the past, that this subject has interested me. In recent months, the knowledge I have gained in this course have been several. Although a basic level, has helped me gain the knowledge and skills base of archaeological analysis in this field.

My dream job

Hi evereyone, this week on my blog I will talk about my ideal job. Definitely, my dream job would be to work as a historian or archaeologist at the ministry of culture of the future Chilean worker Republic. This would be my ideal job because I would link the production of scientific knowledge with the construction of a superior human society. From my point of view, the construction of a workers' republic is the only way to put science in the service of workers and people. If we conceive of science as art, in the past centuries there have been some great examples of this. In the arts, the French Louis David painting was part of the revolutionary government of the Jacobins. Beethoven composed great symphonies in honor of the revolutions in Europe. During the twentieth century, the early years of the Soviet Republic meant the socialization of the production of artistic and scientific knowledge.

Work as above would be a great responsibility. Involve systematic, consistent, rigorous and dedication. I think I would have the ability to meet these requirements as I would love the idea of bringing in my intellectual effort to construct a new government within which the sciences can serve the liberation of man. I believe the essential quality for a job like this would, in addition to the always necessary rigor, the passion!

However, finding a job like this will be very difficult but NOT impossible! To find a job like this will be necessary, before submitting the relevant CVs!, pull down the government of the bourgeoisie in Chile and extend the revolution to the rest of Latin America. Finally, to preserve my job and, maybe, get a better salary, no doubt ... will need to finish what begun ... And extending the workers' revolution and socialism, for every corner of the planet!. This is the only way to be a historian or archaeologist, working for a state worker, without the risk of being fired...!

My future?

Hello everybody. On this occasion I will talk about my future. Specifically, I will talk about my hopes, dreams and as I look in the next years.

In five years more, I see myself living in a Buddhist temple in Tijal, a small village in India. I will have finished my studies in the university, but... I will not be interested in the archaeological practice. For the year 2014, I will learned that what matters in life is to find the essence of the spiritual world!. In few words, the search of “Nirvana” fills my whole existence. Everything else: archeology, politics, personal interests, will not longer have any significance. I have learned, finally, that everything is illusion.

However, not everything will be perfect. I Will feel melancholy for the Occidental world, especially for my favorite meals in McDonald's. But, I will be strong. My meditation and the kung fu practice help me to reject my thoughts. Occasionally, i will go to the cinema with my master.

But never be happy… Really, my life in India will not entirely satisfactory. In fact, I would have liked to be a great artist in Italy. But you can not have everything in life...

And what do you think? What is your future?

The Best in my Field

This week on my blog I will talk about Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957), who was a very important Australian archaeologist of the early twentieth century.

Usually known as just Gordon Childe, he was perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which influenced his thinking about prehistory. He is also credited with coining the terms "Neolithic Revolution" and "Urban Revolution". He was one of the great archaeological synthesizers attempting to place his discoveries inside a theory of prehistoric development on a wider European and world scale.

Some of his most important books are The Dawn of European Civilisation (1925), The Aryans: a study of Indo-European origins, (1926), The Most Ancient East (1928), What Happened in History (1942) and Man Makes Himself (1951). These books, published almost 90 years ago, appear today as some of the most important works in the history of archaeological thought.

In general, the influence of Childe has been present in a number of archaeological schools, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. As we have said, the terms "Neolithic Revolution" and "urban revolution" were some of his most popular contributions. However, all approaches have also influenced a number of archaeologists of the processual school and post-processual, in recent decades.

Personally, I admire Gordon Childe because he was the first professional Marxist archaeologist. In few words, I admire Childe by being able to apply the Marxist theory of history in the archaeological interpretation of prehistoric.

My career

I study archeology because I am interested in the investigation of past societies. Also, because i am attracted by the humanistic disciplines and social sciences; for example, history, anthropology, sociology and others. From my point of view, I think archeology involves use each of these disciplines, from the perspective of the study of material cultural remains. For these reasons, and many others: the enjoy of exploration and discovery, the curiosity by other forms of social life, the need of understand the present from our own past, I study arqueology.

The archaeologists can contribute in many forms to society. They are important to the study of past of each human culture, from the begining of the human race. Thanks to the archaeologists, is possible have a clearer picture of the peopling of the continents, the first forms of collect hunter life, the origin of agriculture, pottery and the state societies. In few words, the origin of the earliest civilizations in the world and, therefore, the historical antecedent of our own culture.

In Archaeology, the principal tools of this profession are: the social theory from social and historical science and the knowledge of technical instruments of archaeological practice: ecxcavacion tools, microscopes, statistical software, GPS and many others.

In general, I am interested in all topics that the arqueology can study. However, my favourite subject are the study of complex societies: for example, in Chile, Tiwanaku and Inca, and the study of the capitalist industry.