Every information you get from this blog may help you know about how the education is in Ecuador and how many tries the teachers have made until these days but the goverments do not let these happen.
This ebooklet is named 'Sociology of Education' written by Williams Maldonado in 2011, a well-experienced teacher, but not for that reason you may figured at him as elder as a wise. Yeah, It´s just because his experience at teaching allowed him to critizice and summarize about important facts on education in Ecuador as well as some Latinamerican countries.
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SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
Ecuador is a country in South
America which possesses a variety of natural resources. It’s one of few
countries on earth that has an unrivaled geographical position none compared to
other countries around the world.
Unfortunately, this
geographical circumstance is not considered really useful from the government and
it does not see it as strength for both programming and planning the Educational
Curriculum.
The present text is a result
of a serious and sensible analysis of the crisis which the educational system
is going through; and how to figure out such crisis ingeniously.
In such a way, inside section
one, you will find information about: a general overview of the Ecuadorian Education,
the profile of the new educator, the education and technology, the self-learning
process, etc., for section two, the author analyses the function of the globalization,
the role of the United Nations, the impact caused by the foreign debt.
In section three you'll see
an overview of the public sector, a description of the educational public
sector, the investments in Health and Education areas, as well as the State´s
general budget, etc.; in section four you are going to identify the role of the
education in the employment and the country's economy; and finally in section five
you, as a good reader, will get some topics about the Internet and its role in
the Latin-American education.
SECTION ONE
THE ECUADORIAN EDUCATION
General overview
Ecuador like many other countries in the
Andean region, has come intruding in a sort of social commitment that allows it
leaving the current tragedy in which its national educational system is (as
both public and private, since the mid
of XX century) trying overcoming these facts:
a)
To apply those ancestral concepts of education by using paradigms and/or
traditional focuses on the old school.
b)
High use of both the behaviorist and the cognitive methods but lower
employment of the criticism and the student’s personal opinion as well.
c)
Being based on foreign educational models.
d)
Motivating to the classic use of the memory and the calculating process, but
rejecting the research development.
e)
Not to emphasis on the learning process by means of pair work and group
work techniques, and some more.
Definition of
Sociology
According to the Latin-American Association of Sociology (LAAS2009), it
is the human science that studies the development, the structure and the
function of society.
Sociology of education
It is in charge of analyzing and studying the interactions of the man's
daily life with the educational environment, their problems as well as the achievements
in today’s education (Idem).
X-ray on today’s educational crisis
Far from minimizing the
pedagogic and literary contributions proposed by teachers as Paulo Freire
(Brazil), María Montessori as well as
Leonidas Proaño (Ecuador), among other agents of social changes; the labor unions
of Ecuadorian teachers should also encourage themselves to leave the Educational
Crisis with creativity.
Seeing as this analysis is focused, it´s
important to recognize what are those factors that have given the impression of
seriously being the origin of the Crisis on Educacion. These are the followings:
* The lack of State’s policy in accordance with the social demands such as:
health, housing and education all those still waiting.
* Another element in the educational crisis, according to the historical
documents, has been the poor investment in matter of school infrastructure,
which has impeded both the rational and appropriate use of the Public rooms.
* The fourth element in this analysis deals with those public schools that are
still sharing the same teaching rooms as well as: school furniture,
laboratories, snack bar and also some offices because they don't have their own
rooms.
* The last element in this diagnosis is either the poor or no training in long-term
seminars guided by the educational authorities of the Ministry of Education to administrators,
school teachers and part-time teachers.
Therefore, the Ministry of Education[1] has been considered by the
educational community as the number one responsible to overcome the educational
crisis, together with all of teachers, the teachers’ Labor Union (UNE and
FEDEEPAL2003) and finally the society in general, in order to get a new educational
face.
[1] The Ministry of Ecuadorian Education.- Government Institution, which is
dedicated to delineate the educational policies inside the National Plan of Educational System. This is the reason why,
all educational institution both public and private should be ruled and managed
by following the Government´s rules; and, applying the Organic Law of Education.
Ministry Of Education: (Leaflet No 205. 2010: 129)
As a result of last facts, it is advisable
to act out right now without forgetting that the alternatives of solution, for
those non-overcome troubles in education, rest in the people’s creativity. That
implies; to design some self-management projects to reach financial resources
that have never been considered before as a part-time aid.
Close to making-up some educational proposals
is needed to consider the educational community’s role, where these projects of
change will look inserted. It either implies the possibility to make those
regions and communities benefit where this helping hand is required.
With these elements of action, Ecuador can
face those old plans and educational programs as well as to leave behind the
classic attitudes and conventional ideas, came from some high officials of
government (anyone); what let us interpret that, something that was exposed by
Adam Smith (1826) as for this topic: 'there
are two forms to conquer and to enslave a nation, the first one with the sword
and the second one with a debt'. Unfortunately the indebtedness is still present
in Ecuador ostensibly to support the usual crisis.
This last has not made any difference inside
the crisis, more than generating a momentous change in educational politics,
because they usually assist and respond the advice given by the Neoliberal Model[2] still existing in different
working areas (G Morales2001); it implies to offer an education familiarized with
the demands of the labour market.
