Abstract

GOERGEN, Pedro. Time and space at school: the liquefaction of modem solids. Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 2005, vol.10, n.02, pp.47-66. ISSN 1414-4077.

The argument the author tries to develop follows a double course. On the one hand, it sustains the Idea that categories of space and time that structure formal education, from primary to higher education, were introduced at the beginning of modernity, based on the model of the natural sciences, remaining unaltered until today. On the other hand, the text shows that these same categories have lost their initial rigidity throughout modernity, becoming moveable and fluid under the influence of science and technology, particularly under the influence of the electronic media. This duplicity between the time and space of electronic media society and the time and space of the school represents an urgent challenge to be faced: the school needs to adapt to the rhythms and urgencies of a time/space that is abbreviated and fast, without rejecting the necessary length of time that the educational movement requires. This balance becomes and indispensable requisite to any institutional evaluation processes.

Keywords : Space/Time; School Education; Evaluation; Rigid Modernity; Liquid Contemporariness.

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