CONTROLLING ONE'S ENVIRONMENT

Controlling One's Environment: What Role does this Play in Learning?

Controlling One's Environment: What Role does this Play in Learning?

Introduction

There are several disciplines related in some way with the concept of environments learning, also called educational environments; such terms are used interchangeably to refer to same object of study. From an environmental perspective of education, ecology, psychology, systemic curriculum theory and ethnology own approaches, among others, has helped to define this concept, which now claims to be thought given the proliferation of educational environments in contemporary society and are not actual school.

Conceptualizing educational environments from interdisciplinary, enriches and makes more complex interpretations on the subject can be built, opening up possibilities captivating study provides new units of analysis for the treatment of school problems and above all offers a conceptual framework with which to better understand the phenomenon of education, hence it can intervene more relevant.

In the contemporary school has lost presence in the training and socialization youth, and cohabits with other community agencies and cultural factors contributing to it, such as groups' urban peers and the media. Correspondingly, the large transformation of education in recent years, involve the establishment of new modalities and training and socialization strategies, which give a clear sense of social pedagogy that goes beyond school settings, addressing attention problems associated with exclusion, conflict socio-educational and human development of individuals and communities, in scenarios that are not school necessarily.

Discussion

The historical emergence of "new" scenarios for Education, surpassing the traditional monopolized school boundaries that date back to the sixties in Latin America with the learning experiences led by communities and institutions, in contexts liberationist ideals of exclusion, economic exploitation and political domination.

Due to the cultural reconfiguration education has been present, it is recognizing a "generalization" of education in different settings and cultural processes so thinkers like Regis Debray indicate that culture has a "pedagogical segment." This remark is very important, as evidenced by the decline of the hegemony of the school in contemporary societies, where the meaning of pedagogy had been restricted to school, forgetting its complex and polymeric meanings related to social and practical sense very different historical social that were peculiar. This phenomenon is taking shape at present, remember that before there's a "school" and learned societies were socialized through other cultural agencies such as family, confraternities, the guilds of artisans where transmitting the knowledge of the offices to the new generations, the local community with its traditions and the parish, among other. Similarly, education is "offset" their old settings like school, and their practices, actors and modalities have mutated and crossed the walls to expand their role in training and socializing with other environments such as city and computer networks, subjects that are not infants but also adults necessarily, and mediating other narratives and knowledge beyond the Enlightenment rationalism rationalist discourse focused on the teacher and the book, cultural vehicle excellence since the Enlightenment (Cohen, 1971).

As suggested over here, the subject addressed in this article represents a conceptual approach ...