by Virginia Arce
published in "The Nation" on April 21, 2010
Aguerrondo sociologist Inés, an expert on education, UNESCO consultant and former Secretary of Education's (1993-1999), is convinced that school as we know and how that today provides education, "died with the industrial society and is no longer serve the twenty-first century society. "
Aguerrondo is a consultant for the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO-dependent). has 66 years and 40 career at home and abroad.
raises the need to create new spaces for teaching, which he calls "learning environments", and says there are two overlapping agendas: to look back on what we should improve on education as we know, and a prospective agenda, to consider what to do with education from here forward.
degree in Sociology with honors from the Catholic University Argentina, in 1966, she taught graduate Aguerrondo in Education Administration from the University Di Tella and Universidad de San Andrés.
- Why do you think the XXI century society needs another design school?
-traditional school was effectively found that the industrial society to extend the horizons of man. That was the model of modernity, but today the knowledge society has decanting these needs. Today we talk about education for all throughout life. The space of learning is not only schools but throughout society. And the student is no longer as before, not only because behave worse than before, although the issues of authority are also based on other things.
-alluded to a key issue. Introducing the new high school project, the President said, "No authority, no institution or learning."
-Absolutely. However, the authority now relies on other criteria: not the authority of social role, the authority of a person, by his knowledge, their capacity for interaction. It is true that he needs to drive the learning process, but the problem is that school is in crisis as such.
"There's a reality of the authority devalued, that does not exist that is challenged by teenagers. Are you saying that that authority should be based on knowledge?
"The school does not convey the true knowledge to the student, who then gets bored because he does not see sense. The school is assembled on the division of knowledge of the mid-nineteenth century, when there was "disciplines." Today knowledge is organized around problems. In addition, today's logic is not the authority of the discipline by discipline, ie, be quiet, still? Today, discipline is what we call workshop model, with noise, people doing things, products and outcomes. We stuck to the traditional look.
- Where does education in the imagination of today's society?
-education, as an aspiration or desire imagination, I think it is still valued. It continues to believe that the more education the better. On a day of school is what I think has deteriorated in the last 20 or 30 years. The whole society feels that the State can not guarantee that children go to school and stay ...
- Does the public school crisis is related to social inequality, poverty and marginalization?
's not a problem only of Argentina, goes far beyond it. We must change the traditional model. Education is an intangible asset, which has only long-term results. To give you an idea: the 1420 law, which in 1884 established compulsory education in a context in which only 15 percent of the population going to school, met its goal of 100 percent only in 1960. What happens is that the elites at that time had a very clear consensus on where to go. There was an institutional holding long-term policies.
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recently Sileoni Minister said that poverty and inequality are the most important enemies of the school. How to include the displaced, who attend public school, basically?
-The system must be flexible enough to contain these differences, but not hold them from easy. Open instances, but that does not depart from the easy, but from the opportunity to learn. I do not think that students today have no interest in learning. They have no interest in learning things the school offers the manner in which the school offers them. So said the school is an invalid proposal for this society. This does not mean I think there will be no school tomorrow. So I mentioned it in "learning environments" that has to do with encouraging peer learning.
- How would these "environments"?
"I want to clarify that the crisis of educational systems is not only characteristic of underdeveloped countries, is much broader, and also includes core countries. We are facing a crisis of the classical model of school and all that is done to improve this model is low. The proposal classical master the board, giving the traditional classroom, has a limit. Today it is very clear that that should not be the way to teach, that learning has to be among the students, the activities are to be varied, the teacher does not have to use as a single element class classical front. If one intends to continue holding a model of organizations and institutions created 250 years ago, not modernized, the crisis will always be insoluble. There will be no way to resolve them.
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Aguerrondo is a consultant for the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO-dependent). has 66 years and 40 career at home and abroad.
raises the need to create new spaces for teaching, which he calls "learning environments", and says there are two overlapping agendas: to look back on what we should improve on education as we know, and a prospective agenda, to consider what to do with education from here forward.
degree in Sociology with honors from the Catholic University Argentina, in 1966, she taught graduate Aguerrondo in Education Administration from the University Di Tella and Universidad de San Andrés.
- Why do you think the XXI century society needs another design school?
-traditional school was effectively found that the industrial society to extend the horizons of man. That was the model of modernity, but today the knowledge society has decanting these needs. Today we talk about education for all throughout life. The space of learning is not only schools but throughout society. And the student is no longer as before, not only because behave worse than before, although the issues of authority are also based on other things.
-alluded to a key issue. Introducing the new high school project, the President said, "No authority, no institution or learning."
-Absolutely. However, the authority now relies on other criteria: not the authority of social role, the authority of a person, by his knowledge, their capacity for interaction. It is true that he needs to drive the learning process, but the problem is that school is in crisis as such.
"There's a reality of the authority devalued, that does not exist that is challenged by teenagers. Are you saying that that authority should be based on knowledge?
"The school does not convey the true knowledge to the student, who then gets bored because he does not see sense. The school is assembled on the division of knowledge of the mid-nineteenth century, when there was "disciplines." Today knowledge is organized around problems. In addition, today's logic is not the authority of the discipline by discipline, ie, be quiet, still? Today, discipline is what we call workshop model, with noise, people doing things, products and outcomes. We stuck to the traditional look.
- Where does education in the imagination of today's society?
-education, as an aspiration or desire imagination, I think it is still valued. It continues to believe that the more education the better. On a day of school is what I think has deteriorated in the last 20 or 30 years. The whole society feels that the State can not guarantee that children go to school and stay ...
- Does the public school crisis is related to social inequality, poverty and marginalization?
's not a problem only of Argentina, goes far beyond it. We must change the traditional model. Education is an intangible asset, which has only long-term results. To give you an idea: the 1420 law, which in 1884 established compulsory education in a context in which only 15 percent of the population going to school, met its goal of 100 percent only in 1960. What happens is that the elites at that time had a very clear consensus on where to go. There was an institutional holding long-term policies.
-
recently Sileoni Minister said that poverty and inequality are the most important enemies of the school. How to include the displaced, who attend public school, basically?
-The system must be flexible enough to contain these differences, but not hold them from easy. Open instances, but that does not depart from the easy, but from the opportunity to learn. I do not think that students today have no interest in learning. They have no interest in learning things the school offers the manner in which the school offers them. So said the school is an invalid proposal for this society. This does not mean I think there will be no school tomorrow. So I mentioned it in "learning environments" that has to do with encouraging peer learning.
- How would these "environments"?
"I want to clarify that the crisis of educational systems is not only characteristic of underdeveloped countries, is much broader, and also includes core countries. We are facing a crisis of the classical model of school and all that is done to improve this model is low. The proposal classical master the board, giving the traditional classroom, has a limit. Today it is very clear that that should not be the way to teach, that learning has to be among the students, the activities are to be varied, the teacher does not have to use as a single element class classical front. If one intends to continue holding a model of organizations and institutions created 250 years ago, not modernized, the crisis will always be insoluble. There will be no way to resolve them.
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