Opinionated school and critical education: information, disinformation and digital media

Abstract

By means of theoretical, reflective and bibliographical research, which falls within the conceptual field of Education and Psychoanalysis, this article addresses the issue of the decline of cultural transmission in the school system and, consequently, its centring on the student and particularly on their opinion. Thus, the article aims to analyse certain effects of the aforementioned decline in cultural transmission at school and, therefore, of student opinionism on the critical formation of the students themselves, as well as on the way they deal with information and misinformation. After analysing this, the article then turns to the subject of digital media and its reverberations on this opinionated school. Finally, the article concludes that, since the school is irreducible to the digital media, the latter's ‘influence’ on it must be problematised and carefully weighed up so as not to further degrade the transmission of culture at school by teachers and, with it, the critical education of students.