Teachers' importance as an educative agent

 Teachers are one of the most important agents of the school, in my opinion. To contextualize the educative activities and what role play teachers in the school, we have to know that :

Educative activities have in common some traits that differentiate them from other social practices. However, when they are compared with other educative activities, school activites present some characteristics that, at the same time, differentiate them from the others.

The school knowledge is almost always deferred and somewhat decontextualized knowledge. There are some figures in charge of the specific role of educating the pupils: the teachers (educative agent) .

The teacher is characterized depending on the expertise to act as a social mediator. The teacher have to create  situations and activities to promote the acquisition of knowledge and cultural forms. The school contents are not focused on the pupils’ interests so, it is essential that teachers have the opportunities to act like change agents and lead a reform in the institutions.