The teaching profession in the over-information and meaninglessness era

Abstract

This article begins with an overview of the proliferation of information provided by digital technologies and their potential implications and effects on knowledge generation. In addition to understanding the complexity of a reality that we are offered filtered and noisy in this avalanche of information. It continues with the analysis of how this reality affects formal education. Here we explore some of the challenges that have been formulated both to rethink the aims of educational systems and the ways of learning and teaching. The following is a presentation of different research projects carried out by the Esbrina research group. From them, we see how students and teachers are experiencing these changes in their lives and how they affect the pedagogical relationships in which they participate. Finally, some aspects of the narrative itself are questioned. Especially the adaptive and uncritical determinism that is generated from the organisms and institutions, which assume the new without analysing its consequences in the ways of knowing, social relations, work approaches and social inequalities. This leads us to conclude by urging us to debate and propose a project of common life.