Education of the future

Education must undergo many continuous changes in approaches and contents. In the society of knowledge in which we are beginning to develop, the work of the educator is more and more complex. We must quickly change the pedagogical focus task in the subject delivery, traditional and fundamental work of the teacher in the past when its essential responsibility consisted in transmitting the effective knowledge to the new generations. That knowledge was established and irrefutable, and consisted in texts and programs that remained in that condition for many years. On the contrary, the professor must now be located in the plane of who teaches to the new generations, to look for the appropriate information, along with indicating to them where the current knowledge is (today).

The professor must be prepared to answer not in the knowledge-specific field, but in the methodological-specific one, so that he can form and consolidate the restlessness of the boy to look and to learn, to always feel unsatisfied with the answers and to develop methodologies to learn in a permanent form. The key of the future is not to look for the information but to know where to find it.

The educators have to be prepared - like a generation transit - to travel towards the education in the society of the knowledge. It’s a difficult trip, because not all of our students have access the same media to complement the work of the class, or to advance in questions in the development of its inquisitive eagerness. But the transit is already there, and our work - beyond the programs of contents and homogenization at a regional and national level - they will have each time a greater component that would be of our responsibility, and of the reality that we must grow in our students.

The basic question resides in assuming the new tasks, but above all to be assumed by the society, it must offer the recognition and the stimulus to a designed education does not to obtain scores and certifications, but to train appropriate people for the success in the complex society in which we are entering.

The process of globalization is no longer a possible future development, but a reality that has settled between us. Much more there a game of greater commerce and investment between countries or of labor mobility that doubtlessly will be increasing, globalization is prevailing by the route of technology the communications. This has been based between our children and teenagers, and the educative system must take full awareness to the consciousness of its conductive responsibility. The new educative approaches and the new methodologies, like also the new disposition of the teaching staff to undertake a task of from a different dimension than from the traditional one, are determining fundamental factors of this process of unstoppable change. It is satisfying to verify that the Chilean teaching staff has already begun to worry about these serious challenges, and is prepared to cause switching actions that venture a proactive answer.