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From Educational
Reform Presentation Preferential assistance and incentives are funnelled to the poorer and most vulnerable groups. State-of-the art technology and pedadogy currently percolates down to the smallest remotest and most isolated schools. These schools get free textbooks and advanced information technology, both of which seem to coexist harmoniously. Teachers gradually gain access to resources and opportunities to an extent they never had before. Several thousand schools at risk have lengthened their school day to the levels found in private schools. Plans for new century envisage the end of double-shift schools, increasing the number of school hours in the year from the current 800 to 1200 hours. We are moving away from the traditional methods of teaching by dictation and of learning by rote. More and more practices are led by the notion that learning is central to schooling, that it is shaped by the contexts in which it occurs, and that children and young people must engage in learning how to learn. We are recognizing that the aim of education is not just to prepare for future academic work but to prepare for a life of quality, and that training for specific employment must be replaced with competencies for jobs that will undergo many changes of direction during the lifetime of any one individual. Educational Reform is the label given to these dynamic initiatives since 1996. It is a major transformation in a country with good levels of economy growth, that is opening up to the world and is reorganizing its political structure in a context of peace. The Educational Reform will lead us into the 21st. century, by giving new meaning to traditions and identities while also acknowledging that such future must involve creativeness and solidarity. A reformed education will be the pivot for cultural change in this "small country of Chile" that has producced two Nobel Price winners and is now as much part of the global market system as of the concert of democracy and human development. José Pablo Arellano Republic of Chile |
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