We invite you to read today the third installment of this In-depth interview with Colombian psychologist Liliana Castro Morato in which we are accompanying her in her proposals to change the Educational System. Today we will talk a lot about ADHD and about the true goal of education.
Should we delay the age of schooling?
I believe that the years of learning presented in the system should be revalued. It is always better later.
The boy and the girl must be able to cement primary processes at home, together with their main caregivers (mom and dad): parenting with respect and respect for their fundamental psychobiological needs so that this can be the floor of their integral maturity.
Early stimulation is being overestimated, manipulated and misrepresented by economic interests.
What system would favor children and be made for their interest and benefit?
Years of schooling to mass graduate boring boys and girls, meaningless or curious about the world. Less committed to social transformation based on an argumentative disobedience founded on the critical and purposeful sense for a better society that is transformed within each one.
What you propose implies that the mandatory contents should be reevaluated, right?
I think it would be better to invest more time in sport, art and expression among other elements that are not necessarily found in compulsory education. And it is very important that the training of educators and all those who participate in educational processes is restored by a new approach of humanization and respect, eliminating any strategy and behavioral training that empowers and leads to violence.
What can you tell us about the psychologist's role in school?
Psychologists who address school problems must have a more clinical and educational vision than organizational.
The real experience shows that psychologists and psychologists in schools are doing a job favoring institutional interests and not defending the development, free personality, maturity and rights of children. Our participation in ethics and religion classes, and in the evaluation committees to issue concepts immersed in moral or business codes moves us away from the meaning of our educational actions.
Finally, and as I know it is a topic that is very close to you, what do you think of ADHD?
I have written about my personal experience in my blog of Cavilaciones and I have merged this with the search for knowledge and the recreation of them through lived experiences. Not everything that glitters is gold, as not everything that looks like ADHD is.
If the educational system were rethought based on the true human needs of insurance, the cases that in the end are simply the cry of children who are difficult to align would diminish.
We thank the psychologist Liliana Castro this interview she has granted to Babies and more and we hope that your experience has been as enlightening as we are.
