What future does the "curriculum of the future" lead to? About the urgency to innovate in school education

Abstract

The idea that, in the name of a better future for humankind, there is a need to change, radically and immediately, the public school curriculum has been posted in multiple documents this century, by entities connected to the education systems. In this paper, starting from these documents, such an idea is made explicit, translated fundamentally in the need to leading the students to acquire functional skills, with the goal of achieving economic development, sustainability, and/or social and personal well-being. After that, the viability of constructing such a future is questioned, since the curriculum is progressively stripped of its greater goals that guide the construction of man, as well as the knowledge of subjects that leads to this construction. Finally, it is claimed that the line of thinking followed in the paper does not decline innovation, but that it should be pondered, and that it will have to be in a specifically educative perspective, never losing the designs of the contemporary school from sight, which, in the name of the future, is wanted for everyone.