Rupturas urgentes em educação

Abstract

To innovate education is an eternal promise, because - as is believed - education is one of the principal sources of change, with the ulterior insight of being the appropriate change, the one better done. Taking inspiration in Christensen, this text discusses innovation traps, of which some are: wanting to innovate without innovating oneself; seeking to control the process of innovation; nurturing impossible or mean promises. Data suggest that our educational system is inappropriate: children do not learn, teachers tend to be very badly trained and very badly remunerated, school is lagging behind, new technologies have no chance, and students complain increasingly. So, "to reform" this system is not the case, since it has no sufficient reason to persist functioning. Indispensable would be to change profoundly, almost beginning anew, partially aiming to be able to cope with the students needs in new times, partially to correspond to pedagogical cares of learning recognized increasingly as continuous challenge. Main reference is the teacher, who, after all, is the main agent changing. To change the teacher is crucial, because practically all changes in school begin with the teachers. To criticize only is not sufficient (it is never sufficient). It is fundamental to guarantee new opportunities.