Traditional forms of education are increasingly distant from the new technologies employed in the labor market. Despite changes in the educational context, the model adopted in most public schools in Brazil dates back to 1830.
The traditional molds are based on the student as a passive subject, at the same time as the teacher is seen as the main subject, responsible for transmitting knowledge and training to students, who simply decorates them.
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However, this type of teaching has little impact on today's society, since technological innovations are moving at a rapid pace. It is possible to illustrate this discrepancy by analyzing data from a study carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2016.
According to the collected data, approximately two thirds of the children enrolled in fundamental education in that period will work in careers that have not yet been created, the so-called professions of the future.
The perspective is that within a very short time, until 2020, about 35% of skills requested by companies undergo drastic changes. As a consequence, more than 7 million of jobs will cease to exist.
Numbers like these corroborate the need for Brazilian education to adapt to what is being requested by the job market, locally and worldwide. Mainly in the sense of stimulating the development of new skills that will meet new demands.
In the mentality of many people, when talking about changes in education, almost instantly the idea is that of something extremely technological, involving robots, cutting-edge technology and state-of-the-art computers generation.
Items like this can indeed be part of the new forms of education. However, simple changes in the educational structure are able to restructure the traditional forms, mainly with regard to the way of learning.
In this sense, letting the student be an active part of the teaching process is one of the actions that can make new students more reflective people.
The intention is for the teacher to be a “mediator” providing the bases for the content, but allowing the student to be a critical subject and builder of ideas and solutions. Some Brazilian schools have successfully put models of this nature into practice.
Innovative scenarios like the one described above still seem very far from the reality of Brazilian schools. While changes are beginning to take place in private networks, in 2014, according to Inep data, more than 40% of public elementary schools did not even have a sewage system.
This reality is a harsh reflection of Brazilian society, which can be even more aggravating when we think about the future. Since innovations are focused on the elite, if there are no changes in public education, there is little chance that in the future its students will reach the best positions in the job market.
Although there are isolated projects in the public network and incentives through scholarships for low-income students in the private network, the actions are very small when the look is turned to the all. For the changes to be effective, the entire public system needs restructuring, from the base to the universities.
If current schools need changes, teachers and the teaching model also need to undergo serious transformations. Currently, they are prepared to work with traditional teaching and changes in education can profoundly affect the profession.
This is because in the new education proposals, teachers are no longer the main figure in the classroom. class and start to act as “facilitators”, which requires greater flexibility in relation to the model current.
First of all, work must begin on the training offered to teachers. A recurring complaint of schools that have already adopted changes is that, although there are vacancies, the training of candidates does not meet the requirements of vacancies. The solution, therefore, is to submit them to complementary training.
The discrepancy between schools and the labor market is already very visible. While education prepares to take the first steps towards changes, the market expects, right now, to find talents with training that accompany this development.
This makes companies increasingly commit to training employees already hired. According to the managers, although people even have academic training, they lack skills that enable them to propose innovations.
In this sense, corporate universities are making great strides. Since they do not need to be submitted to the scrutiny of the Ministry of Education, they can work with what the market wants, that is, professionals are molded to existing needs, and those that may to emerge.
Regardless of all factors, the maxim that we should be eternal learners has never been so popular. Regardless of training and ambitions in relation to the job market, everyone must be constantly updated.
Even though basic training still has serious deficiencies, today the internet works as an important aid, bringing students closer to all types of training and learning.
Thus, people need to dedicate themselves more and more to self-training and the development of new skills, especially with regard to the ability to present solutions and deal with all types of innovation.
