Strikes

Hi again. Today I'm going to share with you a little reflection about strikes.

First of all, I have never taken part of a strike during my whole life. This is basically for the reason that my school wasn't involucrate on the political contingency during the last five years. 

Now, in 2016, the student movement keep fighting for achieve the things that where proposed at the beginning of the mobilizations. In this sense, I think that the student movement has to go on, but I have strong doubts of which will be the mechanism of protest.

Well known is the case of the strike that took place on the Universidad de Chile last year. I had the opportunity to listen the version of different persons who lived this process. In general, they’re impressions vary a lot. There are the ones who defend the strikes, arguing that it was an effective way of pressing the authorities to do something. In the other hand, I found the ones who suggest that the strikes were just a waste of time. They say that in the end, this mechanism of protest loses their meaning.

I think that every mobilization have to design a clear plan of action, and in that way, include the biggest amount of participants. The discussions must be for everyone. In spite of this, I think that the strikes attempts with some students that want to contribute in other ways. In my case, to have a strong opinion of what is happening nowadays with the Chilean education, I need the classes to go deep into the discussions. But talking in general, I thing that a strike can help only if there is a very clear plan behind it. The student movement needs concrete achievements. In the last years there was more failures than real progress in this subjects.

English and kwnoledge

Hi everyone, today I will write a little reflection about the importance of the English language in our present context.

I think that English is nowadays considered as a universal language. This condition means that in the practice, a big percentage of the scientific publications are written on this language. This is a reflection of the globalization process of the last decades. The English language became a tool for every person who knows how to speak it, in the way that allows the communication and comprehension between persons of very different countries and cultural realities.

English works in the same way on the sphere of the knowledge. For students as us, from Latin America and in general for any Spanish-speaker, knowing English allows them to comprehend a big amount of works into the different spheres of the scientific investigation and the a lot theories developed at the most important universities of the world.

The most of these universities are located on the United States and in Europe, so it's very important to improve the understanding of this language, looking forward to improve –as well– the knowledge in every university of the world.  It’s like a democratization of the knowledge.

Presentation Experience

The today's presentation was great. I felt good, even though I didn't prepare too much the presentation. Contrary to the presentations on the school, I felt more comfortable, I think because it was a theme related to the social sciences, something that I like very much. 

In general, all the presentations were very good and very interesting. I learned a little bit of another careers into the social sciences, some social theories and finally, the life and thinking of different authors related to the social theories. 

I hope we repeat these kind of presentations, because I think speaking is the best way to learn this language.