I came to talk to you about the power of
inclusion and I start by telling you that the
education is a human right
but it is also the right that is the
facilitator of all other rights
so an education absent or
deficient constitutes without question the
main brake on social mobility of
a person or to the human development of
why a society where there is a
poor education or absent there
poor people and where there is poverty
offer an education that does not reach
to get out of this
so I want to talk to you about the
poverty education relationship more
specifically poverty education
childish from two reflections a
who tries to explain the problem and another
who wants together with you to get closer
to a possible solution in costa rica
according to the latest reports we have 400
one thousand
hear it well 400 thousand children and young people
who live in poverty and
extreme poverty suffer from malnutrition and
malnutrition live in nearby places
to contagion and toxic outbreaks where
they also experience the highest
Overcrowding rates violence abuse
and also the highest rates of
prematurity low birth weight
morbidity and that ‘s where he concentrates on
our main sources of mortality
childish
It is also the children and young people who
they have more difficult access to
service of all kinds and drag a
feeling of helplessness with which
they have to try to survive
the violent neighborhoods promoted in the
school year and assume responsibilities
that are usually above their
physical and mental possibilities as
is for example having to exercise
jobs of high physical demand or have
to care for younger siblings like
can you imagine the possibilities of
have school difficulties in these
conditions are very many
but I want to talk to you at least
of two that are the most direct
association and one of these is the
malnutrition
our brain consumes 20 percent
of the energy that we consume and it
In addition to feast the energy
that goes to the rest of the body for
do all the activities that we usually
do on a daily basis especially learn
that’s why malnutrition impacts
directly on the brain of
children sometimes causing alterations
of metabolic and structural type
irreversible character
for example the iron deficit of
zinc and I is associated so
direct with cognitive impairment or the
low protein and caloric intake
it is associated with fattal diseases
prognosis among children and between
earlier and continue to this
deprivation will be the effects
about the neurocognitive development of
the little ones to malnutrition
they are also associated with diseases such as
acute respiratory diseases
chronic diarrhea and anemia and these
they come to cause late course
incorporation of children into the system
school dropout and absenteeism and for
supposed low performance
the second cause of more direct
associations chronic infant stress
your unfortunate mind in the sectors
impoverished people live the highest
rates of sexual abuse and punishment
physical
and this children ‘s children know and
makes them live under a permanent state
of stress and when we live
under constant threat
we can get to suffer something that is
knows how to charge the touch and this is
the cause of that release high
levels of adrenaline that in the end
can cause an imbalance in the
immune system and it’s also the
trigger of high levels of cortisone
of cortisol forgiveness that can reach
cause neuronal death in areas like
the amygdala and the cerebral hippocampus is
which are precisely our towers of
control of memories
that’s why it’s not strange to find
Significant attention difficulties
and very important problems to retain
previous learnings
all these circumstances add up to
recurrent diseases and also
to a kind of behavior to the
defensive that these children present that
often interpreted as indiscipline
for which they come to receive a punishment
that adds cyclically to the punishments
that they already receive without reason and that everything
this pushes them imminently
towards school failure
then a child who lives in these
circumstances
possibly becomes a young and
adult in similar conditions
that’s why we say it’s in the
childhood when the
generational transmission of poverty
and that’s why any country that
aspires to be a developed country
The first thing you have to do is finish
with child poverty and took advantage
then this moment to move to the
second reflection that I bring to you and it is
How could you and I try
look for a solution for this
situation
how could we turn our
centers
education in real centers of
protection and development for our
same and here to what he appealed that
let’s look inside our own meter
square and let’s think what is he doing
each and each one with its power
citizen to free our children
of the chronic and perverse closure of the
child poverty and not just for them and
your present but for you links your
children and their future to which he appealed that
that we exercise something similar to what the
daddy francisco calls the mercy of
the good guides and now let’s see how I
that up to here we agree in
that education is the main channel
of social mobility
but for education to impact
really to child poverty can not
be any education has to be
an education that is offered with
equity with quality and sustainability
and that’s when we talk about the
inclusive education because because a
inclusive school is one that
guarantees each and every one of its
students, whatever their
features access
permanence and high school achievement the
inclusive school is one that is
worries about the rights being exercised
of children and girls and for
end child poverty
why because child poverty is
defines precisely as the denial of
the rights of children and of
little girls
the denial of access to nutrition
to drinking water to housing to the
education to health to stay
participation and above all
protection an inclusive school is
that measure their quality not by a
career and rational
excluding for getting so
individual the highest qualifications
career that create me socially not
leads nowhere is the school that
measure their quality by their ability to
draw from personal and social exclusion
to each and every one of his students
an inclusive school then requires
of community support and makes the
community community a mechanism
highly effective to achieve their
purposes and that is where you
they come to play a preponderant role
because whatever the profession
the office or the good things that you
do the school needs it and it’s
scientifically proven that the
effective participation of volunteers
acts impacts directly and
positive school performance
children and the formation of values and that
you can find it in
any of the scientific stories
on good education practices
inclusive in the world and took advantage
then to tell you an experience
very close
a few years ago he approached the program
of special education of the uned where
a group of leading teachers worked
from a school in eastern San Jose that
serves 600 children from one
precarious with very difficult problems
social
The main concern of this
teacher will be the absence practically
total of families in the school and the
low performance of children to the
school was ugly dark sad to neglect
children should be unhappy
the teachers were overwhelmed and we
We started thinking about what the
best way to help this school and
it did not occur to us that what
we could do was
mediate the self-evaluation of that
institution and help them identify
what will be its main
needs
besides helping them define which
viable projects could be possible
to get to a quinquennium a place to
resolve the situation to some extent
that was all we did what
everything else and that the educational center
with the invaluable participation of the
community in a year and a half
we just had a school
completely different
the condition and nutritional quality
of the dining room changed the arrangement of
the areas for recreation increase
the entry of sunlight opened to
the teaching offer was modified to
that was more participatory and
collaborative the school will open the
community offering training to
families so they could monitor
more closely the development of their
children
this training was also offered
especially to future mothers so that
when your babies arrive at school
they do it in better conditions than
they made their older brothers the
children looked happy teachers
more willing to teach and when
then on behalf of the staff to
analyze what could be the
reasons for this change
all agreed that the
The role of the community was fundamental
that without them they would never have found
the tip of the skein and there would have been
known what was the way to go
then and for this
ladies and gentlemen is an imperative
citizen who does not read in school
of this nature and that with our
best ideas hands and voices declare
responsible for the end of poverty
child in costa rica
precisely here in the country more
happy of the world where 400 thousand children
hardly share that happiness
thank you very much the
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