Colombia and xxi century education a post modernist school?

Abstract

This article is a theoretical refl ection on the urge of rethinking the school as the social scenario where teachers evolve. For this purpose, at our sight, four elements are intertwined as the context and the reason for the situation itself. The unbalance in the relation between the modern and post modernist approaches which according to Gianni Vattimo constitutes the fi rst step as the XXI century socio cultural context of the school . Secondly, we remember the rupture between university and society reported by Durkheim within the French context which is related here as an analogy. Thirdly, we state, the problematic relation between knowledge and power from Lyotard perspective, and fi nally we try to outline the responsibilities of Colombian teachers to the light of these three previous statements.KEY WORDS Education, modernism, postmodernism, teacher, knowledge, power, college