Reading: For an education immune to another pandemic

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The pandemic showed that the educational system is not fully prepared for online education, and I am not referring to technology or internet access. Many virtual classes maintained a conventional format where teachers taught on a whiteboard screen while students listened and/or watched. This practice usually prioritizes teaching over learning, since students maintain their dependence on the teacher, showing regular interest in their tasks and how to carry them out, therefore, they have serious difficulties studying alone.

This introduction suggests that no devices have been developed for the formation of Self-Discipline, which is the ability of a person to self-regulate their behavior. This is clearly observed in two moments, first in the natural behavior of an individual in the presence or absence of authority, and second when he deploys autodidacticism as a method to learn by himself without the help of another. In this sense, the curriculum leaves something to be desired in terms of the formation of self-regulatory aspects of personality such as the will and character of the students.

It is understandable that during the pandemic corrective measures could not be taken due to the rush to attend to technological emergencies. But close to an in-person return, it would seem that the changes are more in form than substance, however, we are at a key moment to discuss a change in the ministry's pedagogical model.

No one doubts that reading is an activity that enables the development of critical thinking, the acquisition of knowledge and education in values. The school claims to teach this function and promotes its use, but it turns out that learning to read does not ensure the formation of a reader. The reading rate of Latin American countries remains below the world average. So, regardless of the reading learning methods used, what should be addressed is the formation of the reading habit.

"Reading habit" is defined as daily self-training in reading, carried out with pleasure and that satisfies a personal need. That is, it should begin with individual self-discovery through the stimulation of curiosity, identification of interests and the formulation of questions as vital needs, so that their satisfaction is consumed in the search for truth, the encounter with books and their reading. usual. The curriculum may contemplate these principles but it also shows discrepancies in the methods to achieve them, and it is very understandable because such aspects address very particular and intimate experiences. Evidence of the above is precisely the existence of readers who managed to become readers not because of school, but in spite of it.

The training of accomplished readers shows a complexity that goes beyond didactics because it addresses the psychology of the subject. Furthermore, whoever tries to take on the task of training a self-taught person must logically possess that quality. A national debate is necessary to transform an education immune to future catastrophes and changes.

Eduardo Molina Morán

1 Response
  1. Yvette YARLEQUÉ

    Totally agree with you, dear Eduardo.
    First of all, it is required that the main actors of the educational act, teachers and teachers, develop all the “self” strategies that you suggest, mainly, being self-taught.
    Secondly, of equal importance to the first, there is an urgent need for a shift in educational work back to in-person teaching, after the rupture of the pre-pandemic academic paradigm.
    My contingent at the disposal of any project in favor of globally responsible and contextualized university education.
    Warm regards,
    Yvette

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