Abstract

SMITH, René. El concepto de tiempo y la crisis de los fines de la educación en las raíces de la pedagogía Occidental. Enfoques [online]. 2013, vol.25, n.2, pp.53-67. ISSN 1669-2721.

The goals of education, studied extensively by traditional pedagogy, have faded with time. Teleological uncertainty and the uneasiness of education are connected. But educational aims or goals are based upon a particular worldview. This worldview also has a conception of time, a vital component that provides a temporal frame for educational goals; it would be impossible to accomplish these goals outside of a timeframe. Western culture established a temporal pattern that did not favor the development of educational goals. In this paper, after discussing the annulment of time from the so-called cradle of civilization, the Greek concept of timelessness is considered to be incorporated to the basis of the later formation of the Western educational system. The goals of Western education could not be expanded due to the loss of the statutes of time, transferred to the Middle Ages and then to Modernism, and leading finally, nowadays, to an eternal present. This situation places modern education under suspicion. No educational project is possible if there is no timeframe in which its goals can be fulfilled.

Keywords : Teleology; Time; Goals; Western pedagogy; Pedagogical project.

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