The Minister of Education, Camilo Santana, proposed, this Monday (8th), during the opening of the World Education Forum in London, that globalization be extended to the area of education, creating equal conditions among the populations of all countries, but always respecting the diversity of each people. In this sense, Santana defended that the exchange of experiences is fundamental. He recalled that education is directly related to economic development, in addition to guaranteeing health and the defense of democracy. Technology for good When talking about the digitalization trend in the contemporary world, the Brazilian minister recalled that “it is important to have digital citizenship so that young people, teachers and humanity can use technology for good”, and that this involves regulating its use of digital platforms. “Unfortunately, we experience the use of technology to stimulate intolerance, hatred, weapons, in short, death, fascism, anti-democratic actions. It is important that we fight this, and set an example. In Brazil, we are with the National Congress discussing how to regulate laws for the use of digital platforms in our country, plus that [é algo que] needs to be done in everyone”, he argued. When starting his participation in the forum, Camilo Santana said that Brazil wants to dialogue in a “sovereign, but horizontal and democratic” way with other countries and highlighted the country’s willingness to “learn from the international experience, recognizing and interacting with the solutions already tried in other territories”. “We also want to make available what we already know how to do to support other nations”, he added. Meeting of peoples The minister defended that Brazilian education needs to move forward to be “increasingly the meeting place of the peoples that make up the nation, so that they learn together to build a new country”. “Indigenous peoples, black population, quilombola communities, people from the countryside, the city and the forest; all the rich cultures that form our identity need to be the protagonists of any educational policy effort”, he added. To his peers, who participated in the meeting, Camilo Santana said that it is necessary for the richest countries to understand that “globalization is not just for the economy, but to create equal conditions for the entire population of the entire world”, through education, including the fight against poverty, inequality, racism and intolerance. “So we have to globalize access to technology. This is where a little bit of exchanges and actions comes in”, he said, stating that education and economic development “go in the same direction”. According to the minister, “Brazil has already learned that the guarantee of the right to education is also the guarantee of health and the defense of democracy, and that no democracy can be sustained without being installed in the hearts and minds of each citizen”. “We resumed, with President Lula’s government, the effectively democratic, diverse and plural meaning for the Brazilian educational agenda, and we recognize that our power lies in diversity”, he highlighted.
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