a country I would like to visit: Mexico

Well, I would like to visit a lot of countries, such as Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, but now, the country that most I would like to visit is Mexico.
I would like to go there because is a magnificent country, it is huge, is one of the largest countries in the world, and has a very diverse geography: it have mountains, plains, volcanoes, and beaches.
Also, Mexico has a huge range of climates: cold, temperate, humid climate, and tropical.
I think that it's if very funny, with many beautiful places to visit, and to learn. It has heavenly beaches and populous cities. It is very attractive for tourism.

I's a country rich in diversity, not all in geography, in culture too.
In it's great extension there a lot of different people, customs, ethnicity, and I like this.
Also, Mexico has a very interesting history, because it housed some of the greatest civilizations in the world: Maya and Azteca. Actually, this country has monumental ruins, and is one of the places more interesting for the archeology.

I would like to go to Mexico, in a few year more years, to go to study. I want to do a postgraduate anthropology related when I finish my career

My ideal job: Indiana Jones

Well I have dreamed about my favourite job since I was little and I passed trought many options; doctor, nurse, architect, astronaut, actress but here I am studying to become an archeologist.
It's curios becouse before entering to the university I had the image of an archeologist more like an indiana jones type, running away from cannibals triying to find a lost civilization all that in a tropical island. But going back to reality I would like to develop the archeology here in chile o maybe in Perú specifically in the North, becouse I have special interest in cultures like moche and chimú. There's a lot of unexplored material there and It would be interest to find something new. Also I would like to teach here a the University becouse I think It's a good way to develop investigations and proyects.
I think the first option is a little bit difficult but not impossible, but I see the second one more near I just need to be an excelent student and work very hard.

My favourite subject

Well... really, I don't have a favourite subject
But I think that the one that I liked more was archeology.
Archeology is teached during the first year of our carrer (Antropology) and the professor who is in charge of the course is Isabel Cartagena, she is very good at teaching and also has a great sense of humor.
Well Archeology, in general, is a discipline that studies societies througth their material remains the principal objetive of the studies is to understand people's social organization, production, relationships, forms of art, and many others cultural aspects.

I think that i liked the course becouse archeology has something very special almost magical; when you find something that was covered for many many years you can understand multiple forms of live usually very diferent from ours. Also the past can help us to understand in a better way our culture. That is something that you cannot find in any other dicipline.

Sir Ken Robinson's talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?",

Ken Robinson is an expert on creativity and education, and has a new a innovate approach to both.

He think that the creativity in one of the most important human faculties, because it allows us to develop the capacity for innovation, and hepls us face the future more efficienty way, among other things. For this, he belives that creativity is a trait we sholud give equal importance to other aspects such as the education and literacy. But now -he says- that human capacity is not being promoted through education. The artistic skills, for example, are discriminated.

At present, all the educational systemsin the world development the same oganizational estructure of the differents educational areas, which favor mathematics, language and humanities, to the detriment of the arts as painting, dance and drama.
This educational system has the sole purpose of generating professional university, socially overstated, and in parallel underestimating other occupations.

We tend to think that intelligence can be developed only in the academic, and this causes us to have a very limited vision of our potential and abilities in other aspects of our humanity.

But the ideal of development of the people should emphasize -from childhood- to enhance the innate creative ability of human beings.

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Well, personally, I think that not only the schools kill creativity, it's a phenomenon of the education in general.

Schools are only a reproduction of an education system that promotes a hierarchical relationships between students and teachers and that limits the potential of students, because they have to must obey the teacher. The school doesn't encourage students to think for themselves, it's more important that they listen and obey the teacher rather they will be active agents of knowledge who are receiving.

I believe that today the school underestimated the creative ability of students and make education as a mechanical process in which students memorize and reproduce the information they receive, and on very rare occasions have the opportunity to participate effectively as active elements in the process of knowledge.

' my Future :O '

Well, I'm not sure about my future. Really, I don't have idea about it..

But I supossed that there some things that I like to spend in my life.
Profesionally, I'd like finish my career, as a social anthropologist and perhaps, do a postgraduate in other contry, maybe in Argentina or Mexico, because I'd like to meet and live some time in this contries.
About my academic expertise, I'd like too much the area of the urbanism, so I hope to develop my work in the urban anthopology, but about my future employment I don't have any idea.

Elsewhere, I would like to meet any contries, as much of them, specially in Souht America.

Now, I'm working in a project of popular education with students of diferents careers and universities, with idea of introducing and develop news educationals forms, based in the ideas of people that Paulo Freire, among others, and I think that I would like to continue working in this, and maybe work from my discipline, more formally.

Personally, I haven't planes or expectations...

task 6: the best in your area

In my opinion, one of the best in my field, the social sciences, is a historian, the chilean Gabriel Salazar.

I like him, because has a very intresting viewpoint about the politic an social historiography in Chile.

He is graduate in history, in the Universidad de Chile. Today, works in the history area, in many universities, and is a History of National Award. His Princial input is the creation of the New Social History, a branch of historiography that study the popular subject and the lowe clases in chile. Among his main contributions, highlights his studies about the populat subject in the XIX century, and his reseach about the social movements in the XX century.

I think that he is a man with a strong compromise with the chilean reality, the history, the politic and the society.

I like him, principaly, because he is a defensor of the history of the chilean popular sectors. His work attemp discover and reconstruct the politician and popular project of the displaced and exploited masses in Chile.


So, he try to embed, comprehend and incorporate to the otherness that has been historically excluded.