Позитивные изменения. Образование. Школа будущего (Тематический выпуск, 2022)/Positive changes. Education. The school of the future (Special issue, 2022)

I would act on the methodology of the Finnish director Lina Liusvaara, which at one time struck me very much. When she and I walked around the Ressu school, I saw that for all its innovative approach, there were a lot of classes with the classical seating arrangement of students. I told her: "It’s so unlike the image of the Finnish school that we know." The principal told me: "Because we think it’s wrong to break everything that’s been done before us."

Right now, for example, I’m making a big film about Lev Vygotsky. In fact, it is amazing how much we use Vygotsky's works without even realizing it. In the U. S. I will be in touch with two people who worked with Vygotsky and Lurie. They are James Werche and Michael Cole – people who still remember that Soviet model. It’s very important for me to show in this film a person who had a great influence on all of us, and we don’t even realize it.

I will also be talking to Elena Bodrova, who lives in America. She wrote the book "Tools of the Mind" together with Deborah Leong. She took Vygotsky's teachings and everything he said about children and repackaged those ideas. Now she is taking American schools and kindergartens by storm. The book became a bestseller, and it rediscovered Lev Vygotsky for the Americans.

We can do the same with humane pedagogues. When we open their writings, we realize that it is all written in very outdated language for the modern reader. It takes a person who has the talent to repackage their ideas, to make them mainstream.

If you summarize everything you have said, what will change in the school in the long run? Firstly, the teachers. There will be fewer graduates of pedagogical universities, and more specialists from different fields.

Secondly, parents will work more in tandem with teachers, the notorious triangle "child – teacher – student" will finally be closed. We will definitely get there through conflicts and difficulties.

I’ve also asked the question "Where do we get teachers?" to various principals, and School 18 in Bratsk is recruiting teachers from the parent community. In many regions, people are interested in part-time teaching jobs. It seems to me that this is the next step, when parents become more involved in the educational process.

A very important point is trust in the student and trust in the teacher. For example, during the pandemic, good teachers knew that students were still in class, even with their webcams off.

Naturally, I think we will come to a personalized education path and the interests of the child will be taken into account. My book began with the school being rebuked for its lack of connection to real life. From the saying that we teach kids a thousand things, but when they come out of school, they don’t know the difference between a mortgage and a loan. I am happy to see my book at the principals’ offices in many schools in many different regions. They say: "You know, the idea of tying every subject to real life as much as possible is so important these days." These are often obvious things. It is pretty obvious with foreign languages, but how do you do it in math class? The teacher can explain speed not through proverbial notations such as X and Y, but through the speed of the Internet and the weight of the file you need to download. I think there will definitely be more examples of this in the future.

Экспертные мнения / Expert Opinions

Школа будущего – школа про жизнь и среда возможностей. Интервью с Анной Высоцкой

Наталья Гладких, Иван Смекалин

DOI 10.55140/2782–5817–2022–2-S1–14–21

Каждый родитель хочет для своего ребенка самого лучшего, в том числе – дать ему хорошее образование. По данным исследования онлайн-школы для детей и подростков Skysmart, только 55 % опрошенных родителей в целом удовлетворены уровнем школьного образования. Основная причина недовольства – отсутствие индивидуального подхода к ребенку. На помощь родителям в выборе лучшей школы приходят образовательные консультанты и коучи. Редакция журнала «Позитивные изменения» поговорила с Анной Высоцкой, нейропсихологом и экспертом в области образования, на счету которой свыше 1000 консультаций в год для родителей по выбору школы.

Анна Высоцкая

Наталья Гладких

Кандидат психологических наук, ведущий эксперт Центра технологических инноваций Института социально-экономического проектирования НИУ ВШЭ

Иван Смекалин

Аналитик Фабрики позитивных изменений