POSTMODERN EDUCATION CHALLENGES: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL FRAGILITY OF TRUTH

Abstract

This is a philosophical work whose theme is epistemology in postmodernity, highlighting the meaning and social impact it generates, especially in the educational field. Therefore, the objective is to address postmodern truth and the challenges it causes in education. For this study, descriptive bibliographic research was used as a methodology, through the review and interpretation of some texts by philosophers of epistemology and post-modernity, who work on knowledge and truth. We begin our proposal by presenting postmodernity, truth and new technologies; subsequently we consider the relationship between knowledge and power, which in postmodernity adopts peculiar characteristics and, finally, we highlight the relationship that exists between education and common sense, to achieve autonomy. The study concluded that in the face of postmodernity and the power of the media that creates new criteria of truth, education finds itself challenged by having to work on common sense so that it is transformed into a critical sense that can help in the formation of autonomous citizens.