Journal 1
Carolina Cardona
Fundamentos de la
lengua extranjera III
TEACHING AN EVERYBODY’S RESPONSABILITY
“Education is a process, which include family,society, Governmet and School” Carolina Cardona
Education is a term that had has many changes in the
history of the humanity. The traditional education, active methodologies,
meaning learning, modern education and digital education are some expressions
that explain the evolution, the objectives and the finality of education in
Colombia with the pass the time. The evolution of the education is represented
with the investigation in the universities, institutes, schools; the changes in
the evaluation by the State (pruebas saber pro for some grades 3°, 5°, 9° and
11°); inclusion of the people with physical and cognitive limitations in the
class rooms; more options for the superior education (virtual courses and
career, universities in the sub regions of the departments); changes in the
hiring of teachers with the exam by State; technology in the away places;
support with the scholar restaurant,
psychology, resources and curriculum.
The principal objective of
education in Colombia has been to form integrally to the student with values
and knowledge for the social and cultural development of the society, in any
subject of teaching, but is important mention that depend the social context,
the methodologies, the techniques and strategies and the teachers the education
has a transcendental impact for the future of a population. And I want to stop
when I do say that education depend the teacher because the role of the teacher
in our country or in any country is very important, specially talking to the
language, according to B. Kumaravadivelu in his text Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language
Teaching in the first chapter: Conceptualizing teaching acts, “The role of the
teacher has been a perennial topic of discussion in the field of general
education as well as in language education. Unable to precisely pin down the
role and function of the teacher, the teaching profession has grappled with a
multitude of metaphors. The teacher has been variously referred to as an artist
and an architect; a scientist and a psychologist; a manager and a mentor; a controller
and a counselor; a sage on the stage; a guide on the side; and more. There is
merit in each of these metaphors. Each of them captures the teacher’s role
partially but none of them fully.” Also, from a historical perspective, one can
glean from the current literature on general education and language teaching at
least three strands of thought: (a) teachers as passive technicians, (b)
teachers as reflective practitioners, and (c) teachers as transformative
intellectuals; to me is the most interesting the role of teacher as transformative
intellectuals because is the better characteristic for that innovator
teachers that connect the pedagogical
theory with the practice from social issues for that the students construct
your own knowledge and apply it in a new experience, for example, a teacher
suggest an activity to his students related it with biology, so the students
can see the need to create a touristic guide about a place and to show the
context, the different trees, different animals, native species, the
opportunity to project this topic depend the teacher, against the idea is
obsolete, so the teacher is not transformative.
Is probably that in any
places of our country, the responsibility to teaching is just responsibility of
the teacher, but this responsibility is of the family, society and State. According
to the text “La mujer como educadora”, the family is the base of education, the
school is a second place to educate, and in this point there are problems in our
country because there are not responsible fathers and mothers, there is not
authority in the homes, there is not respect and there is little communication.
According to the Constitución Política Nacional de Colombia de 1991 and Ley
General de Educación 115, education is a Human Right in Colombia, but
incomplete, because in many places the students pay to study in comparison with
others countries, here in Colombia in many sectors is necessary to pay for
scholar restaurant, materials, transport, university, and others aspects.
Finally, is important to
mention the mean idea about the document by Liliana Maturana: “The English
teaching in Times of the National Bilingual Program in some state schools:
Linguistic and Pedagogical factors”, the which show us the really about the
preparation of teachers for elementary school, the which is not appropriate for
education and teaching of English language as obligatory subject, this
situation is very common in away places of our country as rural zone or in
indigenous or afro communities. So, the role of Government as responsible of teaching is although constant training to teacher, oferring resourCes and educative material to teacher with quality.
Our role is indispensable,
but the teaching is responsibility of everybody.
