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Questions Knowledge Competence Ø   Who are The Enemies of Nature, according to Joel Kovel? Ø   Name what are the damages that Giants biomass nets are causing? Ø   What is the purpose of popular education? Ø   List the different types of literacy according to Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers effectively Ø   How much have been increasing the human population? Comprehension competence Ø   Describe how the modern environmental movement has helped to transformation? Ø   What did you interpret about poverty? Describe this issue. Ø   Summarize what is Environmental Education. Ø   Differentiate the methodology used in the “Zoo School” and that one that is use in a regular school. Ø   What do you understand about Neoliberalism? Analysis Competence Ø   Gregory Batenson stated that the basic ecological unit of survival is “organism plus environment.” How do you explain that relation? Ø   Explain, how the...

Santiago’s question: As Colombia is looking forward to be a bilingual country, Should public schools increase the number of hours of English in school as private schools do since second graders?  THE ISSUE OF DEALING WITH TIME One of the main issues which teachers have to deal is to manage in short English class’s time what the Ministry of National Education (MNE) demands. The MNE has stipulated some special achievements for every grade, as well as, they has demanded that by the time when students get graduate, they have to be able to speak in English, or at least, having reach a B1 level in English (according to the Common European Framework of reference for languages: learning, teaching, assessment, it is an intermediate level).   Nevertheless, most of the students from high school have a poor English proficiency, most of the time because teachers did not cover all what they were needing to teach, because of the low hourly intensity.   There is not is no...