Complexity in 21st Century Education.

Abstract

This essay reflects on the impact of the paradigm of complexity in the world of the XXI century’s education to demonstrate how education, to be effective and efficient, must contemplate the actions that it will execute on the critical variables that impact its system. The paper has touched the following critical points: Government as the leader of the system and as a defining entity of national needs; universities as responsible for the accurate implementation of the social function of educating citizens, as well as, for offering an education with its own style, within the autonomy that the country system allows, as representatives of particular visions in search of a free, non dictatorial education; teachers as a vital part of the system because they are the guides or facilitators who direct the process where the complete system is implemented, in both classrooms and virtual classes. And finally, the students, for whom the process exist in search of professionals who make of the nation a productive place to live and work based on ethical values. Our reflections uses as a framework of references previous researches on the subject and the wisdom of millennial cultures that still in the present century expresses in the hearts and actions of today mankind.