DIRECTIONS: Inspired by Peter McLaren`s socratic and reflective approach, write down here five critical questions about the relationships between our Colombian educational system and its historical, social, political, economic and cultural influences.
1.Why the speaking skill is not evaluated by the ICFES?
ReplyDelete2. Do students in Colombia accomplished with basic English standards given by the minister of education?
3. Why do you think that students in Colombia are not achieving the B1 level required by the government?
4. Why teachers in Colombia are earning a low salary comparing to other countries?
5. Do you think is fair that the education in the countryside is different to education in the city?
6. Do you think that is better learning a second language with native speakers rather than no nanitve speakers? Why?
ReplyDelete7. Why teachers in Colombia prefer working abroad rather than in their own country?
8. Is it better learning a second langue in a Institute than at school? Why?
9. Are you agree or disagree when people say that kids should learn a second language on their early stages of life than when they are older?
10. What do you think about when parents do not let kids learn a second language?
1. Why the minister of education is not a professional related to the field of education?
ReplyDelete2. What are the reasons that support the idea of a privatized education in Colombia?
3. What kind of changes are done in the education based on the different researches made by Colombian investigators?
4. How can the education contributes to improve the standard of life of the people that belonged to FARC?
5. Why do the education modify its system according to the government expectations, instead of providing education with a contextualized meaning to the Colombian students?
1. What is the role of Colombian English teachers in the post conflict?
ReplyDelete2. What are doing English teachers in order to promote critical thinking in their classes?
3. Can English learning vary according to students´culture?
4. Why do teachers and parents do not fight for changing the educational system?
5. Why do we have teachers instructing topics based on their micro objectives and disconnected to the real world?
6. Why does the country have to compete in education with countries that have developed effective educational systems?
1. Is education a fundamental human right as Political Constitution of Colombia established?
ReplyDelete2. According to ‘Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística’ (2013) only 1% of disabled people goes to the university. What do you think about the low university entrance rate?
3. Are Colombian people being educated to belong to a social system, in which they lose their own identity because of its culture, context and customs?
4. Garzón (1997) affirmed that Colombian education starts from the premise ‘Studying to get a good job’. Colombian government has been promoting ‘The Education for Work’ since 2010, training people in work practice by developing technical expertise and skills as well as training for artisanal, artistic, recreational and occupational performance. What is your opinion about it?
5. How have moral prejudices affected people’s training process throughout their life?
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ReplyDelete1.Why being a teacher is not a recognised job in comparison to other jobs?
ReplyDelete2.Why students are not motivated to learn a new language?
3.Why only use of English is evaluated in the Pruebas Saber 11º?
4.What should the Role of Religion be in Public Schools?
5.Do you think is better teaching in the classroom or outside the classroom?
1. Why cultural understanding is not promoted by schools?
ReplyDelete2.Are traditional teacher education programs preparing quality teachers?
3.Have schools really changed that much in the past 100 years?
4. How universities should prepare new teachers?
5. Do you think technology is a great tool for the educational system?
1) the Colombian students use uniforms to go to school, but in some developed countries like the USA this is not the norm. Do you think that the use of uniforms in public and private schools should change to students using the clothes they feel more comfortable with? Why? Why not?
ReplyDelete2) Do you think pruebas SABER 11 should evaluate the english listening skill in our country?
3) Do you think that pruebas SABER should be cancelled, so the grades of students become enough requisite to enter university, such as in other countries?
4) Do you think native speakers of English who had not received a teaching education degree should teach the subject in our country?
5) What do you think of Programa Ser Pilo Paga? Do you think its effective? what changes would you make to it?
-Why the educational system do not care about the disabilities that children have in their learning process?
ReplyDelete-Do you consider that educational institutions are making a progress with the use of TICS for learning purposes?
-Do you agree or disagree with the teaching methodology that was implemented in the time your parents were in school?
-What do you think about teaching values and civic culture as a subject?
-Is it better to teach students about theoretical or practical knowledge?
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Delete1- How do you think money influences education?
ReplyDelete2- Do you think the educational system has worsened due to the government?
3- Why do you think students do not pay attention to English classes?
4- Has bullying affected the way students learn a second language?
5- Do cultural differences influence the learning process of a second language in a classroom?
1).Do you consider that materials such as English please and the Common European Framework have provided changes to the Colombian education since its implementation? State your reasons.
ReplyDelete2). In 2004 the National Bilingualism Programme was implemented. What was the initial point that made the Colombian goverment to implement this new programme?
3).In 1979 French was a adopted as a subject in the Colombian education. Should the goverment consider French as a subject to be teach again in schools? State your reasons.
4). As the Colombian goverment insist that learning english as a second language is compulsory for its national education. In ten years we can infer that English would be consider a official second language in Colombia. Do you agree or disagree?.
5). What is the notion that the Colombian goverment seeks for English teaching?
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ReplyDelete1. How the government's standards and policies encourage teachers to focus on socio-political issues in their language classrooms?
ReplyDelete2. Are students seen as a passive or active actors?
3. Does standards emphasize in academic or a social perspective?
4. Why do not the government want students to think critically?
5. What do teachers need in order to raise their voices and make students stand up for injustice?
1) Do you think if president Santos ´promises about education came true?
ReplyDelete2) Why do not most of Colombian people recognize the role of Colombian teacher?
3) Why is important experimental education than traditional education?
4) Is evaluation an excellent process to measure the acquired knowledge?
5) Which are some constrains to implement technology in rural places?
1) Despite Colombia is a secular country, why some educational institutions compel students to attend Mass?
ReplyDelete2) Is the Colombian educative system freed from Eurocentric thinking?
3) Is the responsibility of developing critical thinking in students solely for the teacher?
4) Why, despite the nefarious results, are we still copying educational models from other countries instead of creating ours?
5) Would the teaching of the critical thinking effective starting not only from school, but also at home?
1. Why do not Colombian schools promote emancipatory knowledge knowing the social problems perceived nowadays?
ReplyDelete2. Why do people let themselves be manipulated by other social classes' ideas?
3. How could schools give good pieces of advice to students in order for them to start thinking critically so that they could help society?
4. How could the discourse empower students to make a good use of it?
5. How could people make use of technology so that they could help to change the legitimacy of the dominant culture?
1. Is the Colombian educational system correctly structured even if its key stuff is mainly conformed by lawyers and polticians?
ReplyDelete2. Do you think our curriculum objetives are designed in order to encourage critical thinking skills on students?
3. Why do Colombian teachers have to copy curriculums and teaching models from foreign countries rather than designing our own ones aimed to solve our specific social issues?
4. Why students and in general our society have forgotten the respect and recognition Colombian teachers used to have in the past?
5. Children´s significant and positive education is merely a school and teacher´s responsibilty?
1. Why our educational system follows the OCDE's politics?
ReplyDelete2. How can affect the education if Colombian government does not allow the autonomy in the curriculum?
3. How can the cultural capital inside the hidden curriculum contribute to enhance our educational system?
4. How are teachers and students dealing with the change of the current educational paradigm?
5. How do the parents commit with their children's education?
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ReplyDelete1. What can be a educational weapon to fight against hegemony?
ReplyDelete2. Is it healthy for the curriculum to follow massive ideologies?
3. Why shouldn't we believe what mass media report daily?
4. In Which ways can schools encourage the struggle against
alienation ?
5. How can we teach subordinated class change the mind of the opresived class?
By Juan David Serrato