Experts who participated in the educational forum GEF & WISE Medellin they called for «action» to transform learning, taking the discussion out of the classroom, looking at teachers as agents of change and involving society.
This summit, held on Wednesday, on the future of education, led by the Global Education Forum (GEF), an initiative of the SEK Educational Group, and the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), an initiative of the Qatar Foundation, brought together more than 100 academic experts, including authorities, professors, NGOs and representatives of the private sector from countries on four continents.
“We are all agents who educate and we are all agents who have to learn,” the president of the SEK Educational Institution, Nieves Segovia, told EFE, who stressed the importance of making a “call to action” by “removing from the classroom academics” the debate on the future of education, “something that commits us all as a society because our progress depends on it”.
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The president of the SEK Educational Group, Nieves Segovia, speaks during the opening of GEF & WISE Medellín 2023, on May 24 in Medellín (Colombia). EFE/Luis Eduardo Noriega A.
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He presented the teacher as the “axis of transformation” and saw as a priority that his task “stop being so routine and repetitive, stop being so disconnected from the interests of the students.”
The director of Fundación Escuela Nueva, Vicky Colbert, agreed with this, when questioning that in some actors eloquence is great, but “the action is little” for which she urged for alliances between the public, private and civil society to contribute to “sustainability” and “quality”.
During the forum, held at the EAFIT University of Medellín under the slogan “Beyond education: Involving the whole society in learning”, the expert also reflected on the relevance of “involving” society in education and not only institutions.
Give voice to and review current learning models
Giving a voice to those who are in the “lowest place of power” is a priority for the Colombian Vice Minister of Education, Óscar Sánchez, and more so in a country where inequality is “clear” and “many people” do not have the opportunity to access the education system.
“You have to give voice to each boy, girl, adolescent, youth and also adult who do not have the opportunity to educate themselves, and understand from their reality how they conceive this development process,” said the vice minister.
Along the same lines, the co-executive director of the Jacobs Foundation, Fabio Segura, opined that to improve “the entire system” you have to start by touching the “most vulnerable” people and where there are “lagging behind” gaps, within that effort. for identifying how they can bring about “variability” in learning.
“It’s not just hearing them. It is changing from what we learn from those voices and from what the concrete results are telling us. It is a process that takes away dignity because it is listened to, but it is not acted on,” reflected the expert.
For Martín Ramírez, a 15-year-old Colombian student, transforming learning requires putting a question on the table: “Do current educational models really cover the needs of young people?”
In his participation in a panel, he explained that today’s society needs “something that gives them meaning” and poses education as a “new symbol”, but “not an oppressive or limiting education, but rather transversal and that stimulates their new skills”. .
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