How are you doing? I don’t know if it will cheer you up if I tell you that Christmas is coming (I don’t love the idea), but at least hopefully you’ll have a few days of vacation.
Those of you who go to this little corner every Tuesday know that in educational centers (especially high schools) a strong debate has taken place in recent years between teachers with quite marked positions and a certain appearance that they are irreconcilable. But just in case you are unfamiliar with this, I will explain everything in summary that a space like this requires.
Some teachers defend that the level of teaching has dropped a lot in recent years and that degrees are awarded with excessive joy. They are supporters of the “culture of effort” and of, let’s say, traditional education, with specific content to memorize and a defense of knowledge for knowledge’s sake.
Others often reply that what happened is that before only a select few studied and it was easier to teach that way. That “effort” is a trap because each person’s situation matters much more, and they defend the new pedagogies, the competencies that appear in the new law and “know-how” more than knowledge itself.
This very cursory description leaves out nuances, not everyone who is in one group or another defends everything that group says, but it helps.
In this newsletter, I admit, you have given more voice to the second group. Visions such as those of Jesús Rogero and Dani Turienzo or that of director Toni Solano would come in here, who have already passed through here in previous months.
We had a small debt with the first ones – there are not a few – and this week we began to remedy it with an interview with Carlos Fernández Liria and Javier Mestre. Two high school professors have written in four hands School and Freedom (Akal), a book “halfway between pamphlet and manifesto” that makes a declaration of intent from the subtitle: “Arguments to defend teaching against educational policies and insane pedagogical discourses.”
Mestre and Liria charge against Lomloe, against the competitions, against the “ideological totalitarianism” of the parents who take their children to the charter school to instill in them their way of thinking (both right-wing and left-wing). They believe that the level has dropped, that pedagogues are a disgrace to education, that anti-repetition measures are a fraud. Here is the entire talk and, of course, in the book everything is better explained.
I encourage you to read each other’s interviews, I think that together they give you an idea of where this debate is going, at times very bitter. Much better argued by its protagonists, in any case, than I could do it.
This week we talked about…
- The UPV/EHU elects rector. This Tuesday, the University of the Basque Country will vote on whether Eva Ferreira, professor of Economics, repeats as the top president or whether Joserra Bengoetxea, professor of Philosophy, replaces her, after a campaign marked by a strange incident in which a vice-rector of Ferreira dedicated himself to insult his opponent with an anonymous social media account. We have interviewed both of them taking advantage of the opportunity. Here you find the rector’s proposals, here those of her opponent.
- Almost a lifetime holding positions without the minimum qualification at UCLM. It is the current head of Research at the University of Castilla, Antonio Alfaro, who has an entire academic career under suspicion. He began his career in positions of responsibility for which he did not have the necessary category in 2012, under the guidance of the current rector, Julián Garde, when he was vice-rector and he appointed him his chief of staff despite being a laboratory technician (you have to be an administrative person). . From there he moved to his current position, for which he should be A1 (he was not). It also has an open process to combine jobs without a permit (it is mandatory and one of its occupations is already full-time). We have asked the university and the Ministry, and as is usual in these cases, no one says anything. Sometimes, university autonomy is this: that no one asks for accounts that I do not intend to offer. I leave you the entire article.
- The Piarists of Catalonia recognize more abuses. The Piarist Josep Maria Canet committed abuses against children between 8 and 12 years old during his time as a missionary and director of a boarding school in Senegal, between 1992 and 2005, as the Pía School now admits, which at the time limited itself to removing him of the country and later gave him positions of responsibility. This is the second case of abuse admitted in the African country due to scalopias after that of Manel Sales.
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- Families report that 33,000 children are still without school in Valencia. The (educational) fronts are multiplying in Valencia. The most important thing happens because on Sunday a worker died when a structure of a school that was being rehabilitated fell on him. This is not part of the usual topics of this bulletin, it is an accident (although we will have to see if there are responsibilities), but apart from the tragedy it represents, it has caused caution to increase in other centers where actions are also being carried out these days. .
- It is logical, but at the same time the reality is that four weeks after DANA there are thousands of children who have not yet been offered an educational solution. According to the main association of AMPAs in the province, There are still 32,800 children without class. The Ministry speaks of 24,272. In any case, there are many boys and girls who have seen their routines interrupted and still do not see anything resembling a return to normality. The educational community is fed up and on Saturday they took to the streets to demand the resignation of the counselor, Antonio Rovira, who they accuse of being “incapacitated.”
- Goyache. The rector of the Complutense is seeing firsthand that the award that he insisted so much on giving to Ayuso against everyone’s opinion has not helped the Madrid president to have him in better regard. The president responded yesterday to Ayuso, who had said that at the Complutense “they give out degrees like churros”, he reminded her that she has graduated from that university and asked for respect.
With this I say goodbye, thank you for reading us.
Next Tuesday, more.
Happy week!
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