INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION – A CHANCE FOR THE FUTURE
INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION – A CHANCE FOR THE FUTURE

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary school faces a great number of challenges, general ones (which affect, to different extents, the school everywhere) and some specific ones (which, for our country, are linked to the transition peculiarities and to the school reform particularity). Among the general ones, the most significant are: globalization, the cognitive society and its requirements, mass school and its democratization, schooling and the world of work (the entrepreneurial paradigm and the deviation of the market economy logic in education), the decrease of the state's role in education, the diversification of the educational field and the social sources of education, the offensive of the pragmatic and commercial values over the humanistic ones in education, etc. Among the challenges customized to our country (but not only) we can mention: the crisis of educational ends, disrupted and contradictory educational policy, incoherent discourse on the social role of the school, degradation of the school social status and the crisis of the teaching profession identity, the anomic school culture (incoherence of values), equality and equity (or "paid gratuity") in the schooling system, etc. All these lead us to admit that the contemporary school is undergoing an identity crisis. Without a lucid outlook on the current state of the educational reality, we cannot rethink education and look ahead.

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