Mar Romera: “Successful educational experiences are inspiring, but they are not exportable”
The teacher, pedagogue and psychopedagogue, Mar Romera, considers that educating is a task for which there are no “elaborate recipes” and in fact maintains that “successful educational experiences are not exportable, only inspiring.”
Mar Romera starred this Wednesday in the first presentation of the second day of the RE Education Forum 'New Challenges, New Paradigms' that takes place at ExpoMeloneras, organized by the Department of Education of San Bartolomé de Tirajana. During his intervention, titled the same as his last book 'Educar without Recipes', he revealed the ingredients for recipes that do not exist: examples (emotionally balanced references), verbalizing emotions and feelings, growth mentality language, unconditional love (with norms and limits), talk about important topics, autonomy and responsibility. “Love does not spoil, the lack of presence that is made up for with material things does,” Romera said.
He referred to the social context in which happiness and pleasure (serotonin and dopamine) are confused; a reality in which the powers (economic, political) manipulate individuals like puppets with the strings of fear and joy. “And adults project those fears onto children.” To counteract, it is a mistake to resort to overprotection and hyperconnection.”
He took advantage of this context to criticize the excess of gamification in school to defend a system of “infinite games.”
He argued, in this context, that the different pedagogical currents have in common what works, and criticized that education has become a “marketing of apps and rubrics.” “Education is heart and imagination, he said before criticizing the excess of protocols and bureaucracy that prevent teachers from dedicating the time that boys and girls deserve, to look into their eyes and to listen.”
With his presentation, Romera was able to move the audience, bringing as many smiles as tears to the attendees to whom he transmitted “the responsibility” that comes with the power to educate, and tried to raise awareness among teachers that “they can be the only second chance.” ” that your students have. “When they least deserve our attention is probably when they need it the most,” she said.
