"Life-long Learning" In order to design a quality pedagogical model, a clear and explicit understanding of education should be shared by the whole Education Community.
This is ours:
"Education is the process of integrated and intentional improvement of the individual, aimed at their self-fulfilment and their active participation in society and culture."
These are the principles:
- Focus on the individual. Because every person is different, the SEK educational system constantly seeks to personalise the learning process, following the developmental rhythm, the ability, the way of thinking and behaving, the motivational factors and the interests and originality of every pupil.
- Emphasis on "learning" rather than "teaching". Education is much more than learning, although people must learn in order to be able to educate themselves. What is important is not just the acquisition of taught content, but being able to use one's own thinking in an efficient way, "learning to think", and knowing which strategies to select for the acquisition, use and application of information; "learning to learn.
- Activity and effort. Learning demands personal effort from pupils, not only as far as intellect is concerned but also in the physical activity involved in exercising, developing and improving their abilities.
- Freedom. Education brings goals within reach, helping every pupil to construct their own personal life project to which they are committed and for which they are responsible. We believe that freedom is learned by exercising freedom.
- Interaction and team work. The agents of learning - the teachers as mediators and the pupils as active players in the process - must not be isolated: they must work in teams and interact in the classroom.
- Improvement. As pupils work towards their own development and improvement, education must be a motivating force that underpins the improvement and unfolding of all the pupil's abilities, up to their own personal limits.
