School as Obsolescence: Contemporary Transformations of Education and Knowledge in Relation to Technology

Sabina Autor

Summary:  This article discusses the changes in contemporary education with regard on knowledge and its role in human formation. The understanding of knowledge as „externalised“ and as encyclopaedic makes it possible to define its immediate utilitarian value and commodifing it. We start from the premise that the Enlightenment idea of rationalism, which on the one hand shaped the modern school, is at the same time the basis for the creation of the modern paradigm of education, which is actually the opposite of it. In this paper we will present some of the key transformations that have taken place in education, which point to its „new“ conceptualisation or paradigm. This submit education to economic goals or to the neoliberal agenda of the knowledge based economy, in which (digital) technology takes the role of enabling and strengthening it.