15.07.2020

Beacon in the “Direcional Escolas” magazine: How will the education be after the pandemic?

“I see the scenario after the pandemic as an unprecedented opportunity for educational institutions. It is time to open up to new perspectives. The question that schools should ask is: How to incorporate what was learned during the pandemic to redesign their future strategy? How are we going to change the way we teach and learn? The Covid-19 pandemic was the trigger to trends that were already emerging, thus speeding up the process. It is up to schools to discuss these trends with agility, but without losing depth, and rewrite their strategies for an early future. Regarding the school curriculum, we should develop individuals capable of solving complex problems, thinking creatively and having cognitive flexibility, focusing on socioemotional competences. They must become able to collaborate with machines and new technologies (rather than competing with them), and connect more and more with reality, proposing solutions to real and current problems of our society. The school must foster students with curiosity and lifelong competences, teaching them to think globally, in order to be capable of responding and contributing to build a more equal world that changes constantly”, says Maria Eduarda Sawaya, Beacon’s founding director.

Please [access here] to watch the full interview with our director Maria Eduarda Sawaya to the “Direcional Escolas” magazine.