La educación en América Latina: un horizonte complejo

Abstract

In this article we will come up with a device of analysis, in order to approach a general question concerning the issue of the emerging transformations within the relation that connects contemporary society with educational processes in Latin America. In order to shed some light on this complexity, we will start at the distinctive features that, as concepts, explain the practices and the discourses of the educational modernization of the continent, and that result in a polyhedron of five tensions: time; space; identity; norm and production. This polyhedron sheds light on the here and the now of school, of education and of the system as a whole. For the author is clear that reflecting on contemporary education demands understanding that it moves constantly and at different paces, and that this analysis can become useful for those educative subjects that manage, produce or do research on knowledge, discourses and institutions.