OPINII DESPRE O ŞCOALĂ ALTFEL
OPINIONS ABOUT A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: During the last decades of the previous century, Alvin Toffler was speaking about the school of the industrial society as having a hidden curriculum/syllabus based on obedience, punctuality and reiteration. He defined the future as belonging to the computing/informational society. More recently (2011), Ken Robinson describes the contemporary school as being taken in mostly with the children’s education in order to satisfy the principles of the industrial production: linearity, standardization and conformity. All this happens while the real life is dynamic, requiring acceptance and comprehension of the diversity, also demanding flexibility and creative adaptation. The political and intellectual elites talk about the knowledge society. The entrepreneurs, the parents and the children want a different school, even if they do not say it openly and directly. The present-day formal framework does not prevent us to make the change. We only need to set the pieces belonging to what we generally call curriculum in a different order and not to be afraid of technology. Thus, the innovation can illustrate its utility without being pressured by the system idleness in any periphery of the educational system (i.e. in any school).

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