Posts

eJournal Module 1.2 link

  In my experience teaching adult learners in English and Math skills, I realize that both Piaget and Vygotsky had their good points as cognitive behaviorists. I would like to focus on the role of sociocultural factors and personal stages of development. We know that both Piaget and Vygotsky believe that sociocultural factors can influence the cognitive process to a certain degree. They diverged as to whether the stages of development that all people go through are a stronger influence than the sociocultural environment. In my opinion, both the stages of human cognitive development and the sociocultural environment can impact on the development of people starting from childhood. There is no "either/or" argument here. This simply means that one person who is at a particular stage of cognitive development may still be affected by the sociocultural milieu he exists in. The same is also true for that same person who is moved to a different sociocultural environment but remains in...
Post a Comment
Read more

eJournal Post #4 The Dynamic Systems Theory and Its Effect On My Self-Awareness

 I was always aware, even as a child, that I do not exist in a vacuum. I always knew that my life is a dynamic, constantly changing system even though back then I didn't know I could describe it that way. But what I think was remarkable back then is that I had no fear that I couldn't accomplish anything I set my mind to. A good example of this is my decision to use my school allowance to pay for jeepney rides from the apartment my parents were renting, without telling my family or the helpers I was going exploring. If the community I was living in back then in Malate was dangerous, I don't think I would have survived that decision. I would tell the people in our house that I was going out to play. But instead of playing, I would go on jeeps and pay for a round-trip ride. That meant I would ride the jeep up to its end destination - then I would pay for another ride back to our street. No one knew that I was doing this on my own. Nowadays, I don't know anyone in our commu...
Post a Comment
Read more

eJournal Post #3

eJOURNAL SEEDS FOR REFLECTION 1. Why am I who I am?  I am who I am because of the circumstances surrounding my conception and the nurturing I received from birth onwards. I am the third child of parents who were highly educated and respected professionals. I was born at a time when the Philippines and the world as a whole were experiencing one of the most severe economic downturn in the history of planet Earth. I was also born under Martial Law when the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. had the Philippines under his thumb. So, I was born in a time of hardship for my family and for the entire country. This may explain why I have no baby pictures - my parents thought I was going to die because I was so malnourished and scrawny. My development from birth onwards was in a family that loved me very much. We lived in a two-story apartment (my parents and all four of us kids lived in one bedroom while my 4 aunties lived in the other bedroom. My uncle and the maids slept downstairs in the liv...
Post a Comment
Read more

eJournal Post #2

eJournal Post #2 My answers for my EDS 100 class: 1. Is education only about cognition? Human development studies encompass changes in the cognitive, physical, and psychosocial domains. A popular view is that cognitive development is the principal (sole?) interest of education; must educators also be concerned about the physical and psychosocial domains of development as well? Here is my reply to the first question: Answer 1: According to this website  https://www.cambridgecognition.com/blog/entry/what-is-cognition,  "Cognition refers to a range of mental processes relating to the acquisition, storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information." I understand that this means only mental processes, meaning other "biological and psychosocial processes" in the human body are left out. Only your mental faculties are deemed important when it comes to your development into a "complete" human being. So, as a future educator, I do not believe that we must only con...
Post a Comment
Read more

eJournal Post #1

Good day readers! My name is Eleanore and I created this blog site so that I can participate and use this as a requirement for my EDS 100 class in the Bachelor of Education Studies program in the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU). I hope to do really well in this class since this marks my return to school after so many years. I presently work as a freelance writer online but I am also an entrepreneur. I haven't formed any companies yet but I do have a Page in Facebook. Check out my profile "Eleanore Hatta" and drop me a message in FB Messenger if you feel friendly and harmless enough :) I do try to reply as soon as possible to messages. I hope to make some new friends in this new course and in my sole class for this Trimester. Eventually, I want to graduate from BES with a high GWA so that my employers will be impressed and offer me a hefty monthly salary with benefits (gotta be with benefits, take note). But that's a long time away and there's ...
Post a Comment
Read more