Education in liquid modernity: between tensions and challenges

This study aims to understand the paradigmatic crises that are multiplying in education and in society in general, directly reflecting the influence of the crisis in the context of pedagogical theories in the contemporary world. We problematize aspects of postmodern thought and several authors who favor changes of perspective about the tenets of modernity, as Bauman (2001; 2010; 2013), Harvey (2012), Santos (2007), Lyotard (1988) and some others who will subsidise our reflections. Such prerogatives are sustained in the current social crisis that has allowed the questioning of modern metanarratives and its supporting pillars in face of changes occurred in the denominated Liquid Modernity.