About the commodification of education A propósito de la mercantilización de la educación

Abstract

This article develops a reflection on the challenges that face the current education and the impact that the capitalist economic model has on the formative, social, curricular, evaluative, pedagogical and didactic dynamics in schools. Based on the different theoretical and conceptual developments that address the problem of the current environmental crisis, an attempt is made to show that the training processes that are currently being developed in most educational institutions have lost their essence and structure by becoming merchandise or goods of consumption, a decontextualization is noticed that prevents responding and addressing the social, cultural, academic, environmental problems in which the educational institution is immersed, which allows arguing the need to build an educational system that breaks with the actual paradigms in traditional education, to give way to an inclusive education where all social, productive and political sectors are integrated in the perspective of contributing to the achievement of a democratic, just, participatory and pertinent society with the needs of a complex reality.