The new one arrives Education reform law, the LOMCE, surrounded by a huge controversy. Minister Wert has become the recipient of harsh criticism for this reform that, in the opinion of many, more than improving the quality of learning, turns the school into a commodified factory.
We are going to analyze the changes proposed by the Wert Law, as it has come to be called, and we hope that our analysis will help you understand what your children expect in the coming years.
The smallest and educational reform
Let's start with the smallest kids. There are no big changes for them. The changes have already been taking place in recent years: increasing ratios and lower budgets for support teachers.
That is, they have already been harmed, because logically and whatever they say, the number of children that an adult can contain and guide is limited. Bad on that side.
The need to young children is to be accompanied by an adult who, rather than imparting knowledge, can be present to understand their emotional and cognitive processes closely. The more children per adult, the worse the quality of the teacher's attention, no matter how aware they are.
And on the other, as there are no changes that improve the education system: fewer records, more freedom, more coherence between objectives and individual maturational development, since the Wert Law will not give us anything positive.
Revalidated
Regarding Primary things are getting worse. There are no changes that make a modern, creative and flexible pedagogy truly used in the classroom. Children will continue, in many cases, having to learn textbooks and complete exams as oppositions, all the same and all at once. But what is worrying is the revalidation.
If they were already passing in some centers that were looking for "good results" half a sixth course preparing the tests that would be done to them, now I fear that the whole course will be a race for children to be able to pass an exam, instead of helping them to develop their full individual potential and evaluate individually.
Later, in Secondary, things get complicated and a greater segregation is imposed that will make it difficult for "bad" students to then be able to gain access to higher education, as if the destiny that you will have in life could be determined at age 14 and based on results of generally memorial exams.
In the end, another invalid, so that externally it is evaluated if the child has taken advantage of the previous years, also disallowing the teacher's work.
Personal development or market demands
I wonder, what should be the goal of education, comprehensive personal development or market demands?
Everything seems aimed at creating people capable of learning what is marked from above, with little initiative and, yes, with a great ability to reproduce content and take exams. What will that have to do with learning or forming critical and free citizens, capable of choosing their own destiny?
Well, the reality is that the LOMCE He makes it very clear in his preamble. Your goal is educate so that the skills and knowledge required by the labor market are achieved, therefore, it turns out that they are current companies that our children are supposed to access, as if we could now mark what the market will require, even if we accept the idea that it is the market that must decide the educational objectives .
I prefer an education that values all human aspects, help children grow up capable of embarking on their own livelihoods and questioning their surroundings. It is true that Education in Spain seems to me that it already follows a backward model and doomed to failure, but it is that instead of putting solutions, it seems to me that things will get worse. That I don't think is the way to achieve individuals capable of generating ideas and wealth.
In any case, of course, teaching should help them develop professionally, whether in positions dependent on others, be creating their own businesses ... but is that really going to be achieved by limiting critical learning and artistic and humanistic development? No I dont think so. Not everyone is born to work as civil servants, skilled workers or office workers. We cannot think that the world in 15 years will need the same profiles as now. The idea, in my opinion, is to invest in imagination and self confidence.
Finally I would talk about the controversial LOMCE, on religion and on whether the way in which it has developed unilaterally, without the educational community, and by a single party is adequate. But since it is a very complex issue, I prefer that we address it soon. What do you think of the LOMCE?
