Blog 5: a person on your field that you admire
Hi everyone!!! I hope you have had a good day today! Now I’m going to write about Humberto Maturana. Humberto Maturana was a chilean biologist and a philosopher until 2021 when he died. He made important contributions in biology and education like autopoiesis theory. This theory describes living systems as self-replicant organisms, for that I can determine the minimal unit of life: the cell. Also in this theory he mixes biology and philosophy because he made questions about the existence and nature of living organisms. I like him because he mixed both areas that I’m studying, biology and pedagogy. Maturana said that learning is focused on previous experiences and reflections. I think the same, the students have to learn from their knowledge and the classes have to be didactic so they actively participate and enjoy going to school. For that I hope that in the future when I will be a professional I will make my classes thinking about my students and they pay attention and par...