The music of my life

I never had –and I still don’t- a favorite kind of music. I mean, I have some tendencies to rock music and derivatives, but I have always thought that every type of music fits with some circumstance of life, and that’s why I always talk about “the Life’s tracklist”.

My own life’s tracklist is compound of many artists and more specifically, of many songs. Every song of this tracklist has a special meaning and reminds me some situation or person that could be important to me.  

I always remember an occasion when someone asked me what song I would take with me if I would have to go to a desert island. On that occasion I said I would like to take “Highway Star” by Deep Purple. Today I probably would say something like “Kashmir” by Led Zeppelin. Tomorrow… I don’t know. Each day has its own song and that’s why sometimes I hear some pure rock music to activate my day, other days I hear classic music to relax, other days I hear some dance music to change my mood, etc.

I believe music is profoundly connected to our life; it talks about what we are, what we think and what our expectations are. We can express ourselves through music and, at the same time, we can allow ourselves to feel intensely our emotions. I think somehow... it's a way of catharsis, like every art expression. We can use it as we wish.

Kind regards! J

Between theory and practice: How we know what we know?

Probably the most interesting and curious thing of my career is the lack of practical activities in the program. Psychology in Universidad de Chile doesn’t have a practical orientation, so we usually don’t have any kind of practice that has been included in the syllabus of our courses a priori. Nevertheless, we always have some teachers whose opinions are different. They think practice is necessary and essential for our academic and professional training.

This semester I have my first all-practical subject: School Ethnography. This course, in fact, has become in a research team, because all the students have formed groups to do the fieldwork, but we all are studying the same phenomenon: the violence in educational contexts. Each group has to go to different kind of schools (private and public) and then we have a meeting every two weeks. In this reunion we talk about our experiences, read the field notes and discuss what we going to do the next visit, what we have to observe or what we have to ask.

This fieldwork has been very enjoyable. My group partners and I have reach the “synergy”, I mean, we don’t have many problems to coordinate as a team. However, the problems we have faced are related to the institutional protocols. We are studying the violent dynamics that occur in Liceo José Victorino Lastarria, but they are very cautious and suspicious to give us access to the school, so we had to be very careful with all we say or we do in the fieldwork.

This approach to the practice in educational context has been a motivation to me. I appreciate to have the opportunity to get involved in this activity, and know better the kind of relationships that we can face in the schools, because I think that practice is the only way to learn to be the best professional and prevent mistakes in the futures.  

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The ideal job

I’ve always thought that when we choose what we want to do with our life, we have to think about something that makes us happy, mainly because we’re going to spend a lot of time doing it.

So, when I think in my future as psychologist, I always think about a job related to educational contexts. That would be a job that could possibly become a passion, because –like I said in some posts before- I’m very interested about education and how to implicate myself in those contexts to propose and proceed with innovations on the area.

I’m interested about researches too, so I also would like to participate in develop some studies related to learning processes and how we can introduce some changes in the current teaching-learning models.

Surely my job will be doing in academic centers, but I would like to move around other institutions, with the purpose of knowing the educational processes in the contexts that occurs. I think that take a look of what’s happening in the micro level is essential to develop innovations in macro level.  

I know that to achieve all this goals, I have to continue studying. When I finish my career, I want to find a good PhD program in some national university, which allows me to work in research and academy.

That’s all by now.

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