MY PERSONAL PIE CHART
This is my pie chart. It shows the things that have more importance in my life.
First, are my family and friends: they fill the 40% of the total.
Then, I consider my studies as a important part of my life, of my time and, also, of my opportunities in the future (work).
After that, I think that my cosmopolitanism although is new, is going to be in the next years very present in my acts. In relation with it, I decided to write diaspora in my pie: maybe I can work as an English teacher around the world.
I put religion, nationality and language in last place because I don´t give too much importance in my daily life.
In relation with the differents types of identity and looking at my pie chart, I can say that my identity is local because the 65% consist of family/friends, work/study, cosmopolitanism.
In my group, the average was different: 80% local, 10% national, 10% transnational.
THE GROUP CONCEPT MAP
In my group, we have drawn the following maps.
CV
Formal information:
Name: Claudia Nafría Sáenz
Date of birth: 8/06/1989
Place of birth: Soria, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
NIF: 72891998F
Education:
From February 2011 to April 2011:
-Erasmus Programme in Copenhagen (Denmark)
From September 2007 to January2011:
-Primary´s Teacher Education in Valladolid´s University (Soria, Spain)
-English´s Teacher Education in Valladolid´s University (Soria, Spain)
From September 2005 to June 2007:
-High School specialized in Social Science in the school “Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Escolapios)” (Soria, Spain)
-Violin Studies in the “Music Conservatory Oreste Camarca”(Soria, Spain)
From September 2001 to June 2005:
-Secondary Education in the school “Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Escolapios)” (Soria, Spain)
-Violin Studies in the “Music Conservatory Oreste Camarca” (Soria, Spain)
Work Experience:
From December 2010 to January 2011:
-Library “Santos Ochoa” packaging and putting the books in order (Soria, Spain)
From June 2010 to September 2010:
-Tutorials (Mathematic, Spanish, English) at my house (Soria, Spain)
-Children´s camp taking care of the kids and multisport activities in San Esteban de Gormaz (Soria, Spain)
-Playing in weddings with the string quartet “Laguna Negra”.
From June 2009 to September 2009:
-Tutorials (Mathematic, Spanish, English) at my house (Soria, Spain)
-Playing in weddings with the string quartet “Laguna Negra”.
From June 2008 to September 2008:
-Tutorials (Mathematic, Spanish, English) at my house (Soria, Spain)
Voluntary Work
-Music therapy with Alzheimer patients, singing once a week traditional Spanish songs. (From September 2005 to June 2007)
-Teaching Spanish to foreign people, twice a week. (From September 2010 to January 2011)
-Helping a disabled Erasmus Student (from Germany) to go to the university (From September 2009 to June 2010)
-Children´s camps in “Las Cabañas” (Soria, Spain). (July 2007)
Others
Computer knowledge:Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet.
Driving license (Spanish driving lessons)
REFLECTION
“Challenge 5: What is cultural identity and cultural hybridity? And how are these concepts important for professional pedagogical work?”
I would like to reflect about a very curious thing that has happened in the class.
We had to organize some aspects of our lives based on their importance and then try to figure out what type of identity we have.
Well, the most part of us gave a lot of importance to the family, friends, work, study… so our identity is local.
Then, at the end of the class we had to think about what of the three kinds of identity (local, national, transnational) was more adequate to each.
Most people chose transnational identity and not too many people the other two.
How is possible that we felt at the beginning that we had a local identity and in the end we chose the transnational identity?
I think that is because we are international students and we are going to be English teacher maybe in different countries.
We really want to go abroad to study, to work. In fact, some of us are now are doing this international studies in a different country than the country we are from.
So, in this way, we feel that we have (or we have to have) a transnational identity.
In the other hand, we are young people and for most of us is the first time that we live without our family, our friends…
So, in this way, we feel still much attached to our people, our town.
I think is normal to have that feeling of “double identity” because we have still a lot of things to learn: about our ideas, our feelings, our ways, our priorities and our future as teachers in an increasingly globalized world.
