Consecuencias del tránsito de la escuela moderna a la posmodernidad:: el nihilismo en estudiantes socialmente vulnerables

Abstract

In recent years, we have witnessed the change of paradigm between modernism and postmodernism. The latter delivers to humans the promise of a much broader worldview, where emotions and skills take a leading role. Academic education is in crisis, motivated by changes proposed by postmodernism. However, this freedom of thought has been based on a strongly unequal world, a child of the modern post-industrial revolution. In this context, students belonging to vulnerable groups in Chile have seen their minds invaded by ideas of progress and freedom of being, but have collided with the brutal reality of the system. In a society strongly influenced by technology and individualism, it is interesting to give visibility to the phenomenon of adolescent nihilism, which is strongly appreciated in marginal segregated and forgotten contexts. In addition to reflecting on this problem, some proposals for short and long-term solutions are put forward to prevent this group of students from being ignored and made invisible.