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Wednesday strike

The activity that we participated on Wednesday was the first day of creation of statutes for the students’ organization from social work. I am part of the career student center called ''mesa coordinadora interina'', so my participation was very important for the other people who are also part of that, because we have been organizing this instance since March. Also the presence and the opinion from all the students were so much necessary for get a real participative and autonomous work.   I think there were few students from social work because, in first, the career, like all the careers of all universities, gives too much academic load, so we have a lot to read and study, and some classmates use all the classless time to do their works, even the strike, and in second, because these activities don’t motivates them yet. Regard to the strike I think I have contributed very little this year, because in general it doesn't make me sense, to put it more simply, I

The last paper i read

The last paper I read was one for Sociological Theory II. This paper is called ‘’the action theory’ and it is written by Talcot Parsons, who is a North American sociologist. The teacher recommended this paper to us because in this semester we are going to learn more deeply about sociology, but sincerely I didn’t understand anything of the paper. As I didn’t understand, obviously I didn’t enjoy it. Also I am in a difficult moment of my university life, or in other words, I am thinking of retiring from the career, so my motivation is even less. Turning to something that I would like to read more, in first, more papers about Chilean and Latin American social movements that raised with popular and autonomy fundaments, for example the zapatista's movement, and second, more about politic, like the essays from Gramsci, who talk a lot of political theories related to the way to understand the society. I think in these two issues because I am really interested in them and I think the

Bio data

Charles Ronson is a renowned private English language teacher with many important publications and presentations about education and children, like ‘’are you experienced?’’ (2010), ‘’diversity and relationships to students success’’ (2004) and ‘’the affective influence of enriched education on talented children in Chile’’ (2011). He studied Psychology at University of Cambridge between 1993 and 1996, the next year he entered to University Cardiff to study Occupational Psychology, and finally in 2007 he studied Educational Psychology at University of Preston. His work experience is varied, between 2001 and 2003 he works as a teacher in University of Gloucestershire, and since 2004 he is part of a research team at the same university, dedicated to investigate aspects of driver behavior, while he works as a private English language teacher for students with an age range of 4-40 years.  Now he is working in two interesting publications called ‘’the design of a scale to examine the so

Study idea

My name is Dominique Aravena, student of social work at University of Chile. A research field that interests me is house programs. I would like to study how the streets constructions or the streets fixes affect the people who live near, focus in the irritating sounds and the visual prolusion that it produce, that stress and probably make depression to the neighbors, especially in the vulnerable areas of the city. I am interested in this problem because it happens very often in my ex neighborhood. I think this will contribute to house programs because maybe this will make programs more respectful and conscious with the people and their daily life. 

English language challenges

Hi! First I would like to thank the teacher for her patience and for all the knowledge and experiences she shared with us. Well, I really liked this subject because it was not boring like others english class that I have been before. I remember that the English class in my school was quite boring and I did not learn anything. I could define just one bad thing. This subject occupied a lot of time of my afternoons. So I was frustrated at some point because some days I had to finish work or study and I could not do it because i I had to attend the English class. Sometimes I forgot that it was time to go to English class, because I was doing works or studying for the subjects of my university career. But leaving that aside, it was a very rewarding experience for me. Personally the use of the blogs was a different and more entertaining activity, in adittion it was a very useful task to practice English. The sad thing is that outside of the class I use very

Changes to my study programme

This year the curriculum of my career has changed. Before the changes that the academics made, the curriculum had three different History subjects, about contemporary history, about Chile and about Latin America, one per semester. Now we have just two subjects. The Latin American History was retired. Personally I love History and to learn about the details of the history that are not told by the official history, so in the future a change that could be made in the study programme is add this subject again, because I think it is really important to dedicate long time to this. Another change I would like to do in my career is the teaching methods. Nowadays some teachers are really heavy with us. I understand the concern about the academic requirement but I completely disagree with the violent practices that we have to endure. Obviously this violence is not physical, it is verbal. But is so much worrying because it prevent us from learning quietly and also happy. And it is because

Winter vacations

Hi everyone One place that I would like to visit on this winter vacation is Talca. One of my friend’s house is located In Talca, so me and all my friends can visit him. There is a field with a dam and a bridge, and it is very interesting place to go over for, because it has so many beautiful natural places. Another place that I would like to go in winter is any beach. Even though the cold I am in love with visiting the beach in winter because it is a very calm atmosphere. I am in love with the sea and the peculiar breeze of the beach. I would like to visit a beach near Santiago because probably I am going backpacking and arrive there is more simple if the place is closer. I do that in summer with a friend, and it was a very short trip on a truck. Any plan that I do for the future is with my friends, so in winter I am going to be with my friends.   I will definitely not study in winter vacations. At this moment I feel very tired with university evaluations, so in vacations I