E ducación y conocimiento: el problema del conocer en la escuela / Education and knowledge: the problem of to know in the school

Abstract

This is a wakeup call to education that is responsible for viable knowledge, and in this complicated work neglects the central role of the learner and of itself is a concern over what is taught, avoiding to see what really is priority for education. The priority is on the mediation of the teacher, in this mediation it must provide the necessary tools for students to construct valid knowledge; this is achieved if the student learns to know his knowledge, which brings up a structure thought to be contrasted with reality then checked for validity. The student must learn not only to make proposals to transform reality, but must implement these proposals and by realizing that the validity of their knowledge. In the educational task reflected a countless elements that shape the learner as the subject of change, where it is possible to conceive forge a different reality whenever appropriate knowledge. The constructions fail, but there needs to be this kind of chaos so that there is order, overcoming knowledge involves not remove it but above all improve. As Ausubel say, the student is who assimilates, accommodates and applies what he knows now.