The educational process: time/space from modernity to post-modernity

The educational process during modernity aimed to develop the reasoning process, to create an education that was universally spread throughout the population and based on the principle of the recognition of merit, to help individuals become useful and functional citizens of society. The entire educational process has undergone a revolutionary process, in the way it is thought and conceived, as well as acted and experienced. From a linear (traditional) educational process, there has been a shift to an increasingly circular (interactionist/ constructivist) process, culminating in a networked (digitised) relationship. This network is not only configured within a delimited physical and temporal context - the school - but has invaded and transformed into other forms, transcending its spatial/temporal boundaries. It is thus that the educational process has increasingly shifted to a virtual place, and along a permanent time span, where different connections are generated, gathered and stabilised between the actors that constitute them. We can conclude by stating that the transformation of the spatial and temporal dimension, starting from the ‘modern’ structural framework, up to the current post-modern school environment, has been greatly determined by the media, electronic and digital