Hacking education from inside

Abstract

This article analyzes the characteristics of the contemporary from the emergence of digital culture, due to the current scientific and technological development, with emphasis on the ICT. Based on the conceptualization of this rapidly changing field, the article seeks to reflect on the importance of the school, and, more specifically, on the possibilities of making changes within the school itself. To this end, the inspiration of our research is in the hacker movements, their ethics, culture, and, mainly, their pedagogies. Hackers actively participate in their social group, with an intense production of knowledge, making them circulate immediately to be appropriated and perfected by everyone. Anchored in collaboration and sharing strategies, the production processes seek to respond to the different challenges that emerge from everyday life. This article moves towards understanding the potential of this perspective for education, also admitting them as viable alternatives for interventions from within the educational system, in what we call the construction of a school with a hacker way. We conclude by developing the idea that we need a school that considers the activist perspective of empowerment, authorship, and collaborative production as the basis for strengthening the public and democratic educational system that is based on a pedagogical ecosystem of learning, communication, and permanent production of cultures and knowledge. The title of this article refers to the urgency for finding ways to create trojan horses that destabilize the system and take the school environment by storm, from a construction proposal collaborative, collective, emancipatory, democratic, and creative.