Open AccessAgainst the factory school of modern times: the need of a paradigmatic rupture
Author(s) -
Jesus Maria Sousa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
south florida journal of development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2675-5459
DOI - 10.46932/sfjdv2n2-194
Subject(s) - curriculum , humanity , industrial revolution , paradigm shift , presentation (obstetrics) , sociology , order (exchange) , factory (object oriented programming) , white paper , engineering ethics , pedagogy , political science , engineering , business , epistemology , computer science , finance , law , radiology , medicine , philosophy , programming language
Despite the accelerating change at all levels of life, demanding a plethora of new intelligent systems, formal education continues to resemble a box, created during Industrial Revolution and only modestly changed since. The technicist curriculum and the public school remain a modernist project, boxing in students and constraining their imaginations.
It is not worth investing in intelligent technologies if education is not taken into account, creating new flexibilities for people’s behaviours and attitudes. A paradigm shift in the area of education and teacher education is a must.
The aim of this presentation is to share my concern about the inadequacy of the “black-and-white” mental organisation caused by the knowledge boundaries of various disciplines in hierarchical order, characteristic of the modernist curriculum implemented at schools, and the real need for a global and interdisciplinary methodological approach focused on the greatest problems of humanity.