Education and social development within the framework of new technologies and digital impact.

Abstract

The current decade of the 21st century is experiencing the most rapid changes in recent years in terms of technological and digital impact. Access to the world of technologies is more decisive today than at the beginning of the century. Different social paradigms are being transformed by the digital impact and its scientific quality. Life today is torn between quantum domains, Big Data, energy media, the computerization of everyday relationships, online communication and its tools, among other factors, which require a new political diagnosis and even new social rearrangements. .
In the educational and social public policy space there are discussions inclined towards the tendency to decode the incidences and consequences of the use of these techno-scientific instruments in the daily reality of societies. This with the objective of a political-legal rethinking that mainly protects the human rights of people without affecting their access or the possibility of this to the advances that the technological world presents.
In this twenty-first (21st) edition of Encuentros, we wanted to address the impact of new technologies and techniques on society, emphasizing their effect on education, social problems, public policies, democratic transformation and access to work and health. We assume that only the accelerated advance of Artificial Intelligence brings with it transformations in many of the contexts that we believed we had responded to from other areas of social theories.
The urgency of interpreting these advances is increasingly essential in this world where geopolitical conflicts have taken hold in the last year, the regression of social justice is normalized in ultra-conservative governments and where democracies seem to be surpassed by autocracies and anti-popular regimes. Thinking about sociopolitics today involves transcending – without abandoning – traditional theoretical fields and advancing in the reading of the processes that today directly affect societies with a “digital” brand.
This editorial issue raises debates, in the first instance, about the demands of educational spaces in correspondence with their role in social development, and in the second instance, the influence of scientific technicality on teaching and learning models. In addition, articles and research are published with debates similar to what was previously stated and in line with the same reflections and interpretations proposed by the editorial committee on this edition.