The is in "intensive care" and without support: Humanists
The SEP "decreed the death of philosophy"
Lujambio deaf ears; required to reimburse the school discipline
humanists
Demand SEP holder 488
enforce the agreement shall bring legal claim
and an appeal to rights human and will make the issue into the political debate of the draft country for the 2012 elections, say
Karina Aviles
newspaper La Jornada. Monday February 28, 2011, p. 43
Noting that the reform in upper secondary education is a more "disease" afflicting the Mexican education system, members of the national philosophical community said that the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) "decreed death of philosophy "in Mexico and today is" in intensive care, without any interest that comes out of there. "
Grouped in the Philosophy of Mexico Monitoring (OFM), humanists require the holder of the educational agency, Alonso Lujambio, enforce the agreement 488, which amends the removal of the philosophical disciplines in high school, and receive the representatives of this community orally to address the problem.
If the SEP continued its attitude of "closure," says the director of the Institute for Philosophical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIF-UNAM), Guillermo Hurtado, seek "other channels to listen", which ranging from legal action to political and social.
"Lujambio or even took the time to answer our letter. There is outrage and a sense that the SEP mocks the philosophical community nationwide! "Said Gabriel Vargas, coordinator of the OFM and researcher at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM).
alert philosophers in the first instance, the Comprehensive Reform School (RIEMSER)-which was eliminated by the humanities and philosophical matters, a decision that the SEP corrected before the rejection of the community-is part of an "education" that aims "to destroy any sense of belonging." It's
a project "close" with a view of teaching, instead of moral awareness, critical and historical, strengthens employee training and training of people obedient to the guidelines of the market, notes Howard.
As has happened with the industry, the government has privatized through the logic of "damage to the company first, then reduced to its most regrettable and then get rid of it" has followed the same course with philosophy, explains the director of the IIF-UNAM.
Felipe Calderón's government has made in high school reform as much or more important than energy. However, notes, 'society has been withheld. The Riesman has been in the shadow and silence. " But cases of the humanities and philosophy are just "a noodle of a problem is more fundamental: the (education) is sick."
contradicts government says Gabriel Vargas. "They say they are humanists and eliminate the humanities, they say they are democratic and authoritarian reform, say they are against the drug and not making an effort to provide students with moral forces through education."
Society Mexico is in crisis and that is education, says the historian Miguel León-Portilla, can provide solutions to major problems being experienced nationwide. There can be no social conscience of ethics, democracy can not exist without philosophy, without a good kind of ethics can not address issues of values, such as corruption, drug trafficking and gender inequality, says Vargas.
Even so, regrets Jose Alfredo Torres, a professor of postgraduate studies at the UNAM, since students enter schools of Industrial Technology Bachelor of Technology Bachelor of Agricultural Technology Studies are no longer philosophy, and in many campus of National College of Technical Vocational Education also materials exist in the area.
"That young people are already dehumanized and where do they go? Now they say they are cannon fodder for organized crime, and have no defense through education. "
Eduardo Sarmiento, a teacher in philosophy, says that many young people will fire a gun without problems. An ethics course will not prevent, but they are closing the door to learn a different lifestyle. "
The First assessment of the situation of philosophy in high school education, the OFM notes that, following the RIEMSER at the College of Bachelors (City Mexico) was renamed and given new content to the teaching of philosophy. Now the materials are called "construction of citizenship and human education." And despite the rectification of the agreement 488, the materials were not incorporated into ethics, logic, aesthetics and introduction to philosophy.
In preparation for the University of Guadalajara, which serves 65 percent of the demand for bachelor's degree in Jalisco, did something similar. And in the high schools of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León's teaching philosophy was reduced to three subjects. In high school in the state of Chiapas, there are 150 teachers and only seven are from the race philosophy, among other cases.
Against this, Ausencio Pérez Olvera, president of the Mexican Ixtli-Teachers Association of Philosophy, School Education, asks, "Under Secretary Miguel Angel Martinez said that although the SEP signed the agreement, has no capacity law to enforce it in different subsystems. So why does have legal capacity to eliminate philosophical matters and why the SEP signs agreements can not be met?
philosophers warn that if the SEP does not do what he signed, submit applications to legal and resource rights, issued statements public academies in the country and will make the issue into the political debate of the draft country's presidential election.
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