I believe that self-evaluation is a necessary step in the process of self-assurance of the quality of my education, so it must be linked to my expectations of it. Because of that, I would like to talk about why I chose to study this profession, in order to talk about the self-evaluation of my academic year. I chose Anthropology as a career in a period in which I didn’t know what to study. I felt lost, but at least I knew that I wanted a career pertaining to the Social Sciences. I finally chose Anthropology by curiosity and mainly because it seemed to solve some doubts (or to approach them at least) that I had about our society. In view of these considerations, is that in my self evaluation I want to talk about the theoretical tools that I have learned and the usefulness of social Anthropology this year.
During this year, I’ve learned much about cultural materialism, structuralism, functionalism, post-structuralism, cognitive and symbolical anthropology, and many other theoretical tools. I think that this is associated to the fact that I like all these theories, because I think they allow Scientifics and anthropologists to generate verifiable and cross-cultural knowledge. But, on the other hand, there are many theories and theoretical tools that I did not learn this year and that were mentioned in the curricular program. I think that this is generally due to the lack of motivation that I have to those theories. In addition, many times I could not learn about these theories because teachers were not trained or prepared pedagogically to teach these theories.
On the other hand, this year I believe that I progressed much in my vision of the practical utility of the social Anthropology. In broad terms, it seems to me that Anthropology is a great instrument or tool of analysis methodology: one can choose the component that serves better for one to investigate a specific object, in order to help people and to protect “natives” of the unconscious cultural contradictions of the socioeconomic structure that restrict their repertoire of action.
Finally, I would like to conclude by saying that in this year I feel that I have progressed greatly as much theoretically as mentally in my future occupation in social Anthropology. I think that in this year I have confirmed my affection to Anthropology and now I am certainly that I want to obtain my degree. It is why I believe that my self-evaluation of this year was positive. Although I believe that I must learn to make an effort to learn all those theoretical aspects that do not please to me, in order of being a good anthropologist.
During this year, I’ve learned much about cultural materialism, structuralism, functionalism, post-structuralism, cognitive and symbolical anthropology, and many other theoretical tools. I think that this is associated to the fact that I like all these theories, because I think they allow Scientifics and anthropologists to generate verifiable and cross-cultural knowledge. But, on the other hand, there are many theories and theoretical tools that I did not learn this year and that were mentioned in the curricular program. I think that this is generally due to the lack of motivation that I have to those theories. In addition, many times I could not learn about these theories because teachers were not trained or prepared pedagogically to teach these theories.
On the other hand, this year I believe that I progressed much in my vision of the practical utility of the social Anthropology. In broad terms, it seems to me that Anthropology is a great instrument or tool of analysis methodology: one can choose the component that serves better for one to investigate a specific object, in order to help people and to protect “natives” of the unconscious cultural contradictions of the socioeconomic structure that restrict their repertoire of action.
Finally, I would like to conclude by saying that in this year I feel that I have progressed greatly as much theoretically as mentally in my future occupation in social Anthropology. I think that in this year I have confirmed my affection to Anthropology and now I am certainly that I want to obtain my degree. It is why I believe that my self-evaluation of this year was positive. Although I believe that I must learn to make an effort to learn all those theoretical aspects that do not please to me, in order of being a good anthropologist.
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