Minggu, 25 September 2011

Humanistic: Introduction to the Study of Human

Human is the most perfect creature which ever walks on this earth. Human is special because of so many reasons like having incredible brain, having unbearable intelligence and the most important reason is because there are never  two identical human in all aspect like physical appearance, personality, intelligence, race, religion and believe. All human is different compare to each other even an identical twin, they are still two different human with alike physical appearance. Along with becoming special human also becoming the most complex creature in this world. It because sometimes human cannot understand about themselves just like they don’t know about who actually they are and facing identity crisis, they also often confuse about how to  behave toward people who really different from them. Based on that fact no wonder there should be a branch of science which focuses on learning about human. That called as humanistic.
            Humanistic studied about human through many perspectives for instance through differences of individual, differences of cultures and so on. Through humanistic people can get boarder perspective rather than isolated perspective in the real social life. So it is important for people from different field to learn about humanistic and it is including teacher and teacher candidate. Because we cannot deny that teacher is one of profession which demanding the person to meet with so many people. It automatically means that teacher has to deal with so many differences in one place called classroom.
            Highly expected with learning about humanistic, future teacher could be more tolerance with differences whether it is race differences, religious differences or individual difference. Not only become more tolerance but the more important is future teacher could behave properly when he/she is facing differences. So in the future there are no more racist teachers or teacher who cannot appreciate differences in his/her classroom. Just like what happened in Clear Brook High School, Texas 2011 after news of Osama Bin Laden’s death spread out.  A high school teacher commented to an American Muslim girl that he heard about her uncle death and she must be feeling sad because of it. In the end that racist comment sent the teacher home, he cannot teach in that school anymore because more than 2000 member of change.com sent petition for that teacher.
            Reflect to my own self; personally I as one of teacher candidate and future teacher have quite high expectation from Humanistic course that I take. I hope this course will help me to know more about myself. I also expected to get better understand about diversity because I was grown up in homogenous environment and last I wish this course will help me deal with people who has different characteristic. Because usually if I meet that kind of people I will just respect them and admits their existence but I tend to not quite close to them because I afraid of making mistake which will make them feel bad or uncomfortable. I am sure that will help me in the future because I never know if I get chance to teach in a heterogeneous classroom.

Source information: http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-racist-teacher-resign-after-targeting-muslim-student   Retrieved at September 24, 2011 21: 10

2 komentar:

Anonim mengatakan...

Good essay weni.
I hope this course meets your expectation, so please feel free to give such suggestion and do the best.

Weni Mardi Waluyani mengatakan...

Thank you so much Pak Hatim...
I'll try my best for this course... and hopefully in the end I'll all my expectation is meet...

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