Blog session 6: Challenges in Education.

Hello!

For this time, I'll talk about how I see the chilean education system.
In first place, I need to mention 2 things that are important to understand the educational crisis. First, the competition is a cornerstone of our education system, the students of same economic situation must compete for access to higher education. Nowadays, there're three kinds of educational institutions: Private, Particular-Subsidized and Public; but in general the students only compete with another that are in the same kind of institution. This problem is shown in the statistics of ranking of score in the PSU.

In this graph we can see the distribution of score of students from different kind of education institutions. I think that this can be resolved with a rigorous study in the education's budget, with increased funding, the public institutions can do better things that make the students have better score and future.

Secondly, the laws in education are bad or are wrong. For example, the LGE  ("Ley General de Educación") that talks how must be the quality level of each educational institution (Reference: National Library of the Chilean's Congress). This law has problems associated to the management of the institutions's funds. Besides, the supervisors are usually associated with corruption. For solve this problem, our challenge is political spaces that all the actors in the educational system could win, because we must all participate.

Thanks for reading, this was my opinion and I would like to know more about yours.

Bye!

Jürgen Habermas: The social communication expert.

Blog session 5: Career-related Website or An expert on your field.

Hello friends! 

In the week's blog I would like to talk about an expert related with my career. This person is Jürgen Habermas, an expert in the sociology of the communication. Actually, Habermas has got 86 years old and he's recognized for his work in the social interaction area. And last thing for characterize him, he's member of the Frankfurt Sociology School, place where the principal study object is the social action (this school is influenced for the author Max Weber). 

Habermas created a innovative theory related with the interaction between individuals in a communicative space. This theory is knowed as "Theory of network actor" which talks about how and individual can determinate the communication, for example, Habermas says that the communicative action reflects a kind of institution (with norms and moral values), this institution works through the environment where the communicative action it's ocurring.

Sincerely, i don't know all things about him and i don't know his theories. But I like the topic that Habermas work, I think that using his theory is possible learn a lot about our reality, considering that today the communicative action has been transformed. In a close future, when I learn plus about him, I would like to continue his work or make investigations using his work as my basal theory. 

Thanks for your attention, Bye!