Totality and theoretical pragmatism

science, war and education

Abstract

This article is part of a growing problem within the current stage of global and especially national economic development. Given the socioeconomic, cultural and educational context in which social relations are increasingly guided by immediacy (instrumentalization) and their practicality given the accelerated need to accumulate wealth, restrictive approaches within research cause the order of the educational process as a whole to be lost. In other words, education is a social relationship and, as such, subject to the same logic as the determinations of society: society increasingly loses its capacity to understand more complex dynamics of its own processes; in education, the relevance of theory and training as the development of subjectivities and not of the self is lost. Instead of networks, walls are formed and “education for war” becomes the paradigm of the entire educational process.