The chiaroscuros of the current educational imaginary: reason, utility and school experience.

Abstract

The text analyzes three social imaginaries about education, configured in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Mexico. Social imaginaries are historical and collective meanings about the institutions that take and give sense, in this case, to the idea of an educational institution. The text is based on the concept of social imaginary established by the Castoriadis, and it indicates how education centers its conception of reason, utility, and experience into its social meanings. The material closes by aiming at how scientific reason, company utility, and experience account for the need to promote other ways of doing educational institutions and learning from students' experiences.