EDUCATION AS THE ANSWER TO THE CHALLENGES POSED BY SCHOOL

Abstract

The best way to get pupils ready for future is to design an education that is able to offer an appealing message for new generations. Education not only must get pupils ready for features that favour full development of their being —individually and socially considered—, but must also affect their cultural, labour insertion and social participation options, with the aim of improving their life and to get them engaged with society transformation.

The challenges mentioned in this paper demand to sharpen the gaze to pass the veils that prevent us from seeing clearly the specific reality, in order to look for new and appropriate answers: educate to form citizens, interculturalism at school, equality of the differences, roles and responsibilities of the teacher’s future, conflict and violence in classrooms, and search for new spaces to prevent school failure.

It is increasingly difficult for school to retain young people and continue to perform their work in education. Education systems tend to prioritize the systemic perspective (formal education) and left the interests of the individuals, and those learnings relevant to best meet the demands of a job market in continuous transformation. This means that it is necessary to devise (social) compensation measures, with the aim of addressing the problems and difficulties faced by young people who fail in the formal education system. It would lead to further acceptance of various shapes and configurations, offered from a «non formal» education, which, because of its flexibility, would facilitate the acquisition of new skills, in constant interaction between the education system and the labour market.