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Mozambican academics are arguing that the country needs to adapt knowledge-building processes to the reality of the people and free the teaching of history from the “moorings of a supposed liberating past,” Lusa news agency learned on Friday.
“The country needs to realise that it is in constant change, and it is important that this change be accompanied by knowledge adequate to the reality of the people,” academic Guilherme Basilio said on the sidelines of the Mozambican History Workshop research association meeting
Basilio says the new age is “totally different” and consequently demands the country realise that teaching cannot be tied to a linear and closed narrative.
“We have to put our history and our reality in the manuals,” the university professor says, noting that history is a subject in constant mutation and therefore should always be thought of as a “becoming”.
In Basilio’s perspective, the multiplicity of sources that characterises the present era must be used positively, while still recognising the need for a rigorous and impartial interpretation of the history of a people with a “rich past”.
“It is necessary to adapt the past to our present. We must avoid the chains of liberating history, as we are all today continually liberating the country,” he said.
The director of the National Library of Mozambique, Jorge Jairoce, understands that any change in the way education is conceived in Mozambique must first pass through a general understanding of what the era of globalisation really is, especially as this period “moved” with people’s lives.
“We, as Mozambicans, have to analyze the dimensions of globalisation and what its effects are,” Jairoce said, adding that revitalizing education in Mozambique would require mastering these two points.
Doing so, for Jairoce, would open the way for a continuous updating of knowledge by teachers, and oblige teachers to constantly update their teaching methods to impart new knowledge.
“We need discipline, both in pedagogy and in research,” the National Library of Mozambique director concluded.
Addressing the theme “Methodological Trends in Teaching History in the Age of Globalisation”, the 7th History Workshop, organised in cooperation with the Pedagogical University (UP), brought historians, teachers and students together in the Mozambican capital, as part of a monthly programme of sharing research in various academic areas.
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