“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.”
Albert Bandura
- How do your personal beliefs about you capabilities, both positive and negative, influence your motivations to learn?
I came from a poor family. My mother was able to finished her secondary school while my father was an undergraduate students in college. I only have three siblings who were able to finish their College. My family has been my backbone on my learning journey. Being a full time worker and a student at the same time is a very challenging one. My motivation to continue my studies is to help my family, build my self-confidence, gain knowledge and be able to help the community. Embracing my challenges and having that strong self-determination and high self-efficacy will help me achieve my goal which to finish my College degree. I am so grateful that I continue my studies because I was able to develop my self-fulfilling prophecy. I had become more confident and positive in everything that I do.
- What factors facilitated some behaviors that you (or a significant other person, say in your family) has essentially acquired through observation?
I truly admire my brother Raymund despite his failures from the past. I have seen him how he was determined to pursue his studies. No matter how difficult our life is, he is striving more to fulfill for his goals. With that determination that he is showing I should also need to possess that attitude to “Never stop believing never stop dreaming”. Conquering that greatest fear would always be my guiding path to make that dreams into reality. If he can do it, others can also do.
- How could we use social learning to conserve our traditions?
On the other hand, how does social learning theory explain contemporary socio-cultural transitions?
Social learning is all about how people learned from others through observing others. It is the process of modelling, observing and imitating. For example, by showing them how to act, obey and do the ethical way to abide the law of God and law of the people. One of the family tradition or gesture is the “pagmamano” which up to this day this has been our practice and now being practiced by my nieces and nephews. This is a symbol of respect to elderly. Another tradition is going to church every Sunday. Me and the rest of the family went to the church every Sunday. This tradition and values will pass on from one generation to the next. By teaching the young ones the value of respect, trust and having a positive outlook they will most likely to succeed in life.
- How should we utilize media and technology in the context of social learning?
Media and technology enhanced our teaching and learning skills which allow learners like me how to communicate easier and support our teaching and learning skills. These two are beneficial for everyone because it is the most prominent ways to engage and communicate with variety of groups. We can also utilize by sharing common values and goals Blog is one example of social media. A significant tool that students are using nowadays on their projects wherein they could blog about their experiences and share it, I sometimes call this as an online diary. But we have to be responsible, value and respect each other on the things we say and share on media.
Marie Paz's Journey 