Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 2:00:02 GMT -5
We always live in the time we live in and not in some other time, and only by extracting in each present time the full meaning of each present experience will we prepare for the future. This is the only preparation that counts for everything in the long run…” John Dewey (Experience and Education) Those who are oblivious to the feelings and thoughts of others and, above all, to themselves, cannot advance, cannot evolve, cannot grow. He who does not reflect, he who does not think, he who does not observe, he who does not investigate, he does not know himself, he does not know what his limits are and, therefore, he is incapable of changing, of transforming anything, not even transforming himself, is a sterile agent. . On the other hand, whoever values reflection and critical thinking cannot help but fear that a philosophy and a concept as valuable as “democracy” could become in our current society an empty formula without content, a simple propaganda slogan, nor stop defending that the educational system of a democracy must have as its first objective to contribute to the formation of citizens committed to democratic values and models of behavior, making it crystal clear that.
Education is a modality of citizen and political action to the extent that it It forces reflection and assessment of the social, economic, cultural and ethical dimension of society. Without being a futurist, I agree with the positivism of Herbert Spencer for whom education will always be the essential engine of human and social progress, one of whose essential functions is to democratize society; and no less in agreement with John Dewey, who defines education as the sum of processes by which a society, large or small, transmits its acquired Australia Phone Number powers and values with the purpose of ensuring its subsistence and its continuous development, therefore, when Social life is authentic, the mere fact of living together educates. According to Dewey, the philosophy of education is based on the philosophy of experience, an experience that means being aware of what happens by carrying out meaningful activities, differentiating what is valuable from what is not and which, in turn, shapes a corpus of certainties, norms and prescriptions that the educational system must foster. How placing the student and future citizen as the center of educational action and the educational center as a place where the value of knowledge consists of.
Solving problematic situations through the methodology of learning by doing ; that is, through active learning understood as the formulation and experimentation of meaningful hypotheses. If we want to educate for times that are marked by the constant acceleration of knowledge and technological revolutions, this objective cannot be achieved with the learning and methodologies of the past. Today the educational challenge must be to provide students with the instruments and tools that allow them to achieve those competencies and skills necessary for their personal, professional and social development; That is, replacing a learning system based on simple memorization with a competency model focused on the development of skills to know how to apply the acquired knowledge. Within the framework of these competencies, one of the most significant and analyzed by the new pedagogy, and there are many current studies on it, is that of “learning to learn”, that is, getting students to build their knowledge from their learning and life experiences in order to apply knowledge and skills in a wide variety of contexts.
Education is a modality of citizen and political action to the extent that it It forces reflection and assessment of the social, economic, cultural and ethical dimension of society. Without being a futurist, I agree with the positivism of Herbert Spencer for whom education will always be the essential engine of human and social progress, one of whose essential functions is to democratize society; and no less in agreement with John Dewey, who defines education as the sum of processes by which a society, large or small, transmits its acquired Australia Phone Number powers and values with the purpose of ensuring its subsistence and its continuous development, therefore, when Social life is authentic, the mere fact of living together educates. According to Dewey, the philosophy of education is based on the philosophy of experience, an experience that means being aware of what happens by carrying out meaningful activities, differentiating what is valuable from what is not and which, in turn, shapes a corpus of certainties, norms and prescriptions that the educational system must foster. How placing the student and future citizen as the center of educational action and the educational center as a place where the value of knowledge consists of.
Solving problematic situations through the methodology of learning by doing ; that is, through active learning understood as the formulation and experimentation of meaningful hypotheses. If we want to educate for times that are marked by the constant acceleration of knowledge and technological revolutions, this objective cannot be achieved with the learning and methodologies of the past. Today the educational challenge must be to provide students with the instruments and tools that allow them to achieve those competencies and skills necessary for their personal, professional and social development; That is, replacing a learning system based on simple memorization with a competency model focused on the development of skills to know how to apply the acquired knowledge. Within the framework of these competencies, one of the most significant and analyzed by the new pedagogy, and there are many current studies on it, is that of “learning to learn”, that is, getting students to build their knowledge from their learning and life experiences in order to apply knowledge and skills in a wide variety of contexts.