Educating and learning in the network society

Abstract

"Crisis" is one of the terms most frequently heard in speeches referred to education. This feeling of restlessness, difficulty and uncertainty is related to the rapid changes we are experiencing. I am not interested in considering here if we are in Postmodernity, or if it is the end of Modernity, or whether we are living beyond Modernity-as proposed by the anthropologist Mark Augé (Augé, 1993) -, or entering, as Zygmunt Bauman (Bauman, 2003) suggests, the Liquid Modernity. Tags are relatively unimportant compared to the widespread feeling that the old foundations are seriously questioned. It is important to point out that "in Crisis" does not mean that the old paradigms and asociated ways of living have been supplanted by others, but that they no longer deserve complete confidence, and that many things that were obvious and clear a few years ago, have changed from certainty into doubt.