Education as learning of life

Abstract

A world-society that ranges from the Westernization of the world to culturaldiversity, from progress to poverty, and from the “society’s metamorphosisalternatives or its disaster” ( MORIN, 2008a, p.38) seems to have in education an important key to face the scenario of uncertainty that characterizesour common future. Overcoming the fragmentation of knowledge, reconnectknowledge and transpose the shortcomings of the information societyset the open horizon of complex knowledge and a reform of thought andeducation. ‘Educating for life’ becomes, according to Edgar Morin, therole and mission of education tuned with an ecology of ideas.