CURRENT SCHOOL. CRITIQUE.

A CRITIQUE OF THE CURRENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM 

If as teachers, in our daily work, we fail or we do not promote new learnings. why we keep doing the same day after day?

The school has already expired  more than 200 years of existence and it is still considered to be the main way to access to the education. Today, school and education are widely discussed concepts in academic forums, public policy, educational institutions, media and civil society spaces. In this way, it is no wonder that families criticise how it works or teachers complain about lack of means or discipline or social pressure.

The schools, since its origins has been characterized by structures and practices that are today mostly considered obsolete or antiquated. We say that does not accompany the needs of the twenty-first century. Its main weakness is a design that does not consider the nature of learning, freedom of choice or the importance that have love and human bonds in the individual and collective development. Ismael Palacín afirms that “La escuela ha sufrido pocos cambios en su concepción del aula, del profesor, de los alumnos o del tipo de aprendizaje, pero la sociedad ha cambiado enormemente y con ella su materia prima, que son los chavales”.

The aspects related with the classes in the school continues being traditional. The subjects of Language, Maths and Sciences (nowadays divided in Natural sciences and Socials sciences) are that more hours are in the schedule. Other subjects like Citizenship or English have minor influence. Although it is a positive aspect the introduction of Digital culture and practise (this year has been the first one) and French (which will begin the next course).

The classes still are not totally dynamic, but there are small advances, as the increase of works in group. The ways of organize a classroom are also changing. We have verified how pupils work with four close or U-shaped tables. Although we must say that a teacher organizes and manages his class attending to different factors, as his thought, the characteristics of his pupils, etc.

Children, in the opposite side about what is supossed to be, are still sad. They don´t like going to school because they consider it us a jail, were they have to only study study and study and where they are going to be 6 hours sitted on a chair.
School has to change to help them improving their personality, something that right now is not posibble.

Thank you for your understanding.