Education and ict: Between means and ends. a post-critical reflection

Abstract

The currently dominant educational discourse, as the heir of critical pedagogy, tends to understand education as a means to the achievement of political, social, and personal ends. Additionally, its development is nowadays inseparable from the use and handling of other means, the ICT. This paper, from a philosophical-educational perspective, aims, firstly, to show that the understanding of education exclusively as a means is incomplete; and, secondly, that this entails a consideration of the ICT not just limited, but educationally dangerous as well. We conclude that it is necessary to recover a currently forgotten teleological understanding of education which neutralizes this risk.