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Raquel Varela

What Raquel Varela thinks about education

@raquel-varela · 13 positions

Portuguese labour historian; professor at FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her blog, in Portuguese, covers work, strikes, housing, education and politics from a socialist perspective; she also posts lectures and talks on YouTube.

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  1. Our readingThe current educational landscape in schools and universities is dystopian, characterized by students staring at screens and teachers who are intellectually expropriated and demoralized.

    Their words"O cenário que hoje tantas vezes se nos depara, ao entrarmos numa escola ou universidade, é distópico: crianças e jovens encerrados em salas com janelas de cortinas corridas, a olhar, sem curiosidade, para PowerPoints e ecrãs controlados por professores expropriados intelectualmente, exaustos, desmoralizados, anestesiados, alienados.

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  3. Our readingDemocracy in schools is dying due to unipersonal management, the General Council's organic structure, and the Teacher Performance Evaluation model (ADD).

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    Their wordsA democracia nas escolas está moribunda: a gestão unipessoal, a orgânica do Conselho Geral e o modelo deAvaliação de Desempenho Docente (ADD) são fatores centrais neste défice democrático.

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  5. Our readingThe focus on socio-emotional competencies is a degradation of schooling that imposes market and State education to create docile labor rather than autonomous citizens.

    Their wordsEsta é uma degradação da escola, porque é uma escola que não ensina, é uma escola que impõe a educação do mercado e do Estado, é uma escola pensada como objetivo de as classes trabalhadoras sorverem esta lógica empresarial, expropriando o valor do cidadão autónomo, que conhece e se emancipa.

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