Improving educational communication as a way of living in an authentic "polar opposition"

A challenge and a task for education

Abstract

The paper aims to deepen, from a pedagogical perspective, the value of educational communication in promoting humanization processes within complex society (Morin, 2007). After a critical immersion into the topic of the information society and its related drifts, we will investigate the concept of polar opposition (Guardini, 2022), in order to know and understand the complexity, and the relational dimension that constitute human existence. The purpose is to recover the relationship with the world of things, people, and values. Without taking sides between ‘apocalyptic or integrated’ (Eco, 1977), it will be examined in what way the educational discourse could provide transformative learning, to identify concrete ways of human liberation.