Abstract

This article discusses the relations between school culture and the innovation processes necessary for schools, inserted in a complex, globalized, plural and technological society, to continue to meet the needs of their students. It seeks to highlight the educational legacies of the twentieth century (SAVIANI, 2017), the paradigmatic transitions in education (PACHECO, 2019; VALDEMARIN, 2017) and the school rituals that constitute the culture, essential to explain the purposes of the school (not the teaching objectives, but the reason for the existence of the school), and consequently, the definition of the curriculum and the strengthening of teacher´s identity (SOUZA, 2017). From the explanation of the school's purpose, we begin to discuss the relationship that it should establish with digital culture and with innovational processes. Crises drive innovation because they create different needs for people (PACHECO, 2019; BENITO, 2017). The moment that is being lived, generating new needs, will drive innovations in educational and schools. It is important to have clarity of the school purpose of education, so that the ruptures and innovations are ethical and might meet the welfare of the students (CORNISH, 2019) and the teachers, as well as the educational needs of an ethical citizen, globally and locally.

Highlights

  • The pandemic experienced in 2020 due to the spread of the COVID-19 Virus provoked serial reactions from different social and economic sectors

  • In June 2020, UNESCO published a paper intitled "Education in a post-COVID world: Nine ideas for public action" in which it advocates that "We cannot return to the world as it was before" and invites us to think about ways, principles and possibilities to have no educational setback

  • Among the guidelines and ideas for post-pandemic education are: 1) The definition of 'right to education ‘ provided special attention to the issue of connectivity and access to knowledge and to information; 2) Protection of the social spaces provided by schools, considered indispensable, but in which new “school practices’ should be observed, preserving the spacetime of collective life; 3) Ensure that scientific literacy within the curriculum, actively placing ourselves against the empire of disinformation and, 4) Promoting global solidarity to end the current levels of inequality

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Introduction

The pandemic experienced in 2020 due to the spread of the COVID-19 Virus provoked serial reactions from different social and economic sectors. Among the guidelines and ideas for post-pandemic education are: 1) The definition of 'right to education ‘ provided special attention to the issue of connectivity and access to knowledge and to information; 2) Protection of the social spaces provided by schools, considered indispensable, but in which new “school practices’ should be observed, preserving the spacetime of collective life; 3) Ensure that scientific literacy within the curriculum, actively placing ourselves against the empire of disinformation (ignorance or fake news) and, 4) Promoting global solidarity to end the current levels of inequality. Much has been asked about the consequences of the pandemic: we are either facing a rupture, in which we will perceive a paradigmatic revolution in all social areas, including education, or we are observing a moment proper to social evolution, in which we will observe transitions of processes and procedures, but we will keep the model already established

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