Scientific Psychology v/s Social Psychology

Hello guys!! How are you?

In this ocassion we`re going to look a news related with my career  and that appears in this webpage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2001/aug/23/choosingadegree?INTCMP=SRCH

 The news is based in the idea that in psychology rarely hints at the statistics and science. And a exceptional examples are the Departments of psychology of two British Universities wich have a syllabus with a reasonably high science base and that is focused on biological and clinical aspects.  These universities have high technology with a range of modern equipment available. One of the head of psychology`estimates that about 20% of his graduates move into relevant employment directly after leaving.  Then, a student of psychology says that some students are disappointed to find that they need to learn scientifics matters. He also recognizes that only a minority of people get jobs in psychology, but does not worry him because he consider that psychology is an interesting degree and he knows that can go on to all kinds of jobs. For my scarce experience I can say that in Universidad de Chile the reality is different. First, we have a syllabus with a perspective more social than scientific (the career is part of  Faculty of Social Sciences and not of Medicine). Also, we don´t have a complete equipment, the classrooms are small and there are not equipment destinated to work of investigation (or laboratory).  It is noteworthy that in our university the students have a range of areas that they can choose for specialise (communal, laboral, educational, legal or clinical) and our university was the first institution that implemented this offer in Chile. Are impressive the diferences between these universities, right?

Well, I see you soon.

Paradigms of education

Hi everyone!! Today I´m going to continue speaking about the conferences of Ken Robinson, specifically of the talk called “Changing paradigms of education”
The first problem that he recognizes is that the actual system of education was designed and created for a different age and different circunstances (industrial revolution) that have a believe of academic ability that promotes the idea that exist two classes of person: academic (intelligent) and no academic ( no intelligent). Robinson refers to boom of ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and he says that this phenomen is fiction because is understandable that a lot of children to be distracted in class if we consider that they recieves many stimuli (video games, TV …) and this point evidence that the school pretend limit the use of all senses of students. He say that the work of school is contrary,  they would have wake up to children. Also the model prevents that people think different or that they can interact in class with their classmates, because are not permit divergent ideas and the collaboration. So the system would have to leave the standardization, the distinction between academic and no academic people, and they would have to consider the collaboration in class and worry habitat of the institutions and the place that take the individual here. I´m according with all that he says. I think that the educational system has many shortcomings and of this way explains why there are so many people disoriented that haven`t idea what to do with their lives and they feel vulnerable to the world.
Greetings :)