The XNUMXst Reeducation Forum is launched in Maspalomas forming the 'School' of the future

 

Reeducation as an opportunity; re-education as the possibility of facing a complicated context in which very serious problems arise, such as the increase in inequality or the rebirth of violent discourses that we thought had already been forgotten.

 

This is the axis on which the content of the I Forum of RE Education: New Challenges, New Paradigms pivots, which is being held from today at the facilities of the Expomeloneras Conference Center in Maspalomas; a forum that brings some of the most important pedagogues and education experts in Spain to Gran Canaria and will address what the pedagogy that comes to us will be like and how the school of tomorrow will be able to face all these challenges.

 

The Forum, said Concepción Narváez, mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, is the fruit of many months' work. And a commitment that comes from the Department of Education of the southern council but that has been crystallized thanks to the commitment and work of municipal technicians and the educational community of the south of Gran Canaria itself.

 

“We are more than just tourism; and from the City Council we have made an effort to add training and education as the basis of a society that looks to the future,” said the mayor.

 

“Education is much more than the transmission of skills and knowledge, added María Dolores Rodríguez, Deputy Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands. “It involves the training of future generations in values ​​such as respect, coexistence, equality, sustainability or social justice, which is the basis that supports the building of a better world.

 

For Rodríguez, events like those proposed by this First Forum are already beginning to form that building for the future. The regional deputy councilor pointed out that the program of this meeting is completely compatible with the objectives set by the Government of the Canary Islands itself. "These types of meetings are spaces for reflection necessary to analyze, understand and plan in community a more committed, universal and supportive education that can only be achieved through collective work."

 

 

For his part, the rector of the University of Las Palmas, Lluis Serra, emphasized the role of education, along with health, in the construction of our advanced societies of well-being and encouraged us to think of educational spending as an investment. for the future and not as an expense. “If you want to know how expensive education is, dare to see what ignorance can cost us,” he ironized. The head of the Gran Canaria higher educational institution highlighted that every euro invested in the educational field is more than returned through innovation, qualified jobs or the creation of a high added value economy. Serra warned that investing in Education is the only way we can successfully assume the challenges imposed on us by an increasingly uncertain future. “It is essential to guarantee the principle of equal opportunities and to move towards economic development.”

 

“Education continues to be an essential tool for social transformation.” Antonio Morales, president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, wanted to read the event in a local and social key, ensuring that the island's challenges such as innovation, food sovereignty or stopping the flight of Gran Canaria talent abroad depend on understanding the Education as an instrument at the service of society. For the island president, realities such as climate change, the “enormous social gap that exists in societies like ours” or the resurgence “of antidemocratic speeches” require a response from the educational system. “We live in times that force us to think about other challenges and new strategies.”

 

In this sense, Morales highlighted the role of meetings such as this XNUMXst Reeducation Forum to “train new Education professionals who are capable of responding to these complex scenarios.”

 

The mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana closed the event by highlighting that the southern event is “the first national RE Education forum held in Spain” and launched the challenge of turning this initiative into a “laboratory that can advance in this sense in the coming years.”