Educación 2021: para una historia del futuro

António Nóvoa

doi:10.35362/rie490679

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António Nóvoa Rector de la Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal.

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https://doi.org/10.35362/rie490679

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earning; education of the future; continuing studies; educative public space; school model; modern pedagogy

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To think about the future is a risky and many times futile endeavor. However, we give in to the temptation of imagining what is going to happen. And in that way, we try to seize the ever escaping fate. Like Pierre Furter –to whom this essay is dedicated4– has written: the horizon does not exist in order to take us back to the starting point, but so we can ponder the distance that is still left. The homo viator builds his house just for the time that is needed, because when he walks he finds and discovers the meaning of his own actions (Furter, 1966, p. 26).
We need broad mindsets, encouraged by thoughts that are not limited by the borders of the immediate present, nor by the illusions of a future perfect. Just like Reinhart Koselleck (1990), I’m interested in understanding how the past is engraved in our experience, and how the future is insinuated in present history.
This text is structured around the future-present logics. I point out, symbolically, three moments that constitute moments of transition: 1870, 1920 y 1970. I have tried to contextualize each of them historically, and to explain how the issues established open up to contradictory evolutions of the educative systems.
In the last part, the future, I suggest a synthesis of these evolutions and I define my own options regarding the most desirable scenario for 2021 education.

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