Sunday, January 27, 2008

ethnography of speaking

I liked reading about the Penecostal meeting in South London. Everyone there was very religious and whenever they went to church to worship they did not know how long the service was going to be. I loved that they would give up everything just to worship the God that they believed to be the true and loving God that would take them to heaven in the end.
The ethnography of speaking through the terminology SPEAKING that we briefly studied about in class is a hard concept to grasp. After hearing about other cultures and how they address there education, it has come to let me know that we have a very relaxed way about going and getting our education.
In our classroom, it is very relaxing and enjoyable environment. I feel that the teacher is the one in charge trying to make the class go smoothly but I feel everyone has a voice in our class which makes it interesting and enjoyable. I also feel that through everyones voice or input in the class helps people learn not only from the teacher giving us the information but also through each and every students point of view of the material being given to us to learn. I feel with this relaxing and enjoyable environment everyone can get the most out of what the teacher is trying to portray to the students, but one aspect that probably is not the best or most accomodating is that to take control back the students can not pay attention because of boredom or some other aspect happening in there current lifestyle.

2 comments:

mad said...

yes it is true that our classrooms are very relaxing but i also think that our system should change to little bit more hard because i also thing this system is harming the education system because the students are not studing enough and not learning everything they need to learn.

Alex Koncar said...

I found it interesting on how much devotion and belief they had in their religion.