Was that - a school of course! Where else could exercise their curiosity, where else would find a whole world of learning? Therefore, became involved with the school children. It was not long and soon was a member of Mary Soares Lopes and Rita Ferraz Coutinho Barbosa, who had established a friendly and innovative private education in Gávea called Park School. The year was 1985 and the rest, as they say, is history: the Park School has become a landmark of liberal education in Rio de Janeiro, and its storehouse of creative ideas came some of the best minds of the city, perhaps furnishing the country .
After nearly thirty years, Patricia could rest on the laurels of the well accomplished mission, but do not even think about it. In contrast, sees increasingly more reasons to get involved with education, which in his view is going through a delicate moment of exchange furnishing paradigms.
- It turns out that the world is experiencing a crisis of paradigms; consequently, Education is too - she says. - The school is going through a difficult time of transition. Emerged new values, new references, and they are living with the ancients. People talk a lot about it as if it were normal thing, but natural is not. For starters, it's a crisis. And it's painful, it's complicated. Means taking all your references and change them radically.
The kids are digital natives "guilt" is, of course, the technology that has brought a new way of dealing with reality and see the world. Children arrive in school much better informed than at any time. And come dipped furnishing in a system that in many cases, still has something of a novelty for the Teacher. The shock is inevitable.
- These kids are digital natives, while immigrants are Teachers - Patricia explains. - And the digital furnishing immigrants, like all immigrants, speak with an accent, still remember from my country, from the previous crop. In many cases, furnishing they miss the time when we had no phone, no computer we had, we had no cell phone. But the world is not going backwards, is not it?
Patricia explains that immigrants Teachers are not to blame for being as they are. They were taught the old way, in other parameters. Children, however, resent to come to a school that is still taken as the schools were made in the nineteenth century. It had its merits and it worked quite well until the right time. But times have changed and the needs are different.
- People say that students are no longer the same. Everybody speaks ill of children and youth today: "They're furnishing all bad!" And it is not true. Are different. Have no other way, other students are completely different from the old, but the school furnishing still wants to fit them in the molds ever. The issue is that they do not fit these molds! What the child will do in school today? Everything that the school teaches is Google.
The School for Patricia, is losing the position of chief information provider. She needs to change the focus: instead of transmitting content to help solve problems. Less education, more learning. And full attention to children:
- There is a common complaint in Schools: "Families no longer furnishing want to raise children." But the family has changed! Everyone now works. There is no longer the mother who stays at home and which offers lunch and dinner. Nobody even dinner with the kids right. Nobody has time for that. And it's normal. It will not change. The family will no longer be the mommy, daddy and little children, and neither will have more time for dinner ... It is obvious that a conversation furnishing with the family, it has to be a partner of the School furnishing is required. But who has to take care of children today is the School. I think the school, then public, should be open 24 hours a day. It should shelter the child forever. Have to feed your curiosity but also lay in her lap, to kissing, to protect. Must help to grow, educate, give values. To this, however, we need to change the head of the school, which can not be the thing that closes at 17h. Must have a permanent duty of caring and loving people. Teaching problem solving
- Children furnishing need to learn - and in case I'm talking furnishing about an epistemic furnishing child, not those who need to learn to read and write just - what they will need for this world that seems coming - Patricia says. - First, learn to solve problems. Real problems. The world comes with many problems of all kinds. Including issues of values. For example, the issue of genetic manipulation ... The children would have to learn it now! Ethics is fundamental. The water is also a problem. How to deal with water? What your child will learn in school is called questioning, problem-based learning. And will do group work. There is one more individualized thing, "I know", "I studied", "I said." Professor c
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