Innovation and Education Challenges

 

Rapid technological changes are transforming many aspects of our lives. However, these innovations may not be aligned with equity, inclusion, and democratic participation, so, according to the UNESCO report (2021), a new social contract for education is needed, with the following key principles:

1. Pedagogy should be organized around the principles of cooperation, collaboration, and solidarity.
2. Curricula should emphasize ecological, intercultural and interdisciplinary learning that supports students to access and produce knowledge while also developing their capacity to critique and apply it.
3. Teaching should be further professionalized as a collaborative endeavour where teachers are recognized for their work as knowledge producers and key figures in educational and social transformation.
4. Schools should be protected educational sites because of the inclusion, equity, and individual and   collective   well-being   they   support   –   and   also   reimagined   to   better promote the transformation of the world towards more just, equitable and sustainable futures.
5. We should enjoy and expand the educational opportunities that take place throughout life and in different cultural and social spaces. (p. 4)

The following video exhorts teachers to renew their practices, challenging them to ask themselves the following questions: What practices should we maintain? What practices should we abandon? What practices should we adopt?

The challenges facing society today lead us to the following questions: What skills should students develop in order to be able to integrate the job market in the future?