Work and education: relations from informationalism and constructivism

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between work and education, considering the consequences of capitalist interests in educational practices, from the industrial society. In this context, the demands of industry organizations, to meet capital accumulation logic, affect the formation of individuals through a positivist and pragmatic nature of education. However, the establishment of a new information economy and the emergence of a society with discordant characteristics of industrial society, potentiated by the use of information and communication technologies, contributed to the manifestation and expression of the interests of citizens, even if they were not under the logic of capital. Even being a capitalist society, the information society, constituted characteristics that increased communication skills, interaction and relationship between individuals, building network relationships and allowing the emergence of subjectivity and hence the development of the constructivist approach to education. An approach which is shown relevant in the context on which discusses in this article, in view of the appreciation of a subject in action in the construction of knowledge, and a foundation for new forms of social interaction and the present learning processes in information era.