DISTANCE EDUCATION: from the relation with the concept of education, trends and social role

Abstract

This article presents an excerpt from a doctoral dissertation in Educational Sciences, in which we situate Distance Education (EaD) as a modality and analyze it from the broad concept of education, understanding it as a social, human and multidimensional practice; situated in the light of aspects of an economic, historical, cultural and ideological nature. Along these lines, we highlighted the presence of components that are part of the distance learning structure, identifying aspects that reveal the organizational and political-pedagogical bases. Emphasis is placed on distance learning under the analysis and presence of new paradigms, those that take into account globalizing trends, complexity, and social and cultural plurality, whose factors interfere with life in society, which also cause changes in the educational field. This ambivalence of phenomena that interfere in science, culture, and education reveals more complex thoughts, expanded and flexible pedagogical models, which require new didactic contributions and new conceptual frameworks for distance learning and, consequently, require new practices and other pedagogies.