The change of space ande time categories in complex societies and its implications in the training process in higher education

Abstract

The following article discusses how changes of the categories of space and time in the complex societies, have influenced in the formative processes in the higher education. Modern society, especially in the last decades has been characterized by intense and rapid changes in the field of technology that originated and transformed social institutions, life and subjectivity. Changes in the categories of time and space are one of the societies’ complex trademarks, which favor the consolidation of a productive model and a social organization
that excel in speed, productivity, efficiency and flexibility. In this context, what are the influences and implications of this process for Higher Education? This question is the guiding principle of the research that aims to understand how the changes of space and time in complex societies has motivated the structuring of new proposals of organization of the higher educational process. Methodologically, this is an exploratory research of a theoretical-bibliographic nature that talks to the authors Giddens, Sennett, Ricardo Antunes and Martha Nussbaum. These researchers discuss the contemporary problematic within the socio-historical characterization of complex societies from their institutions (individual / society socialization) and work morphology. Thus, the change of space and time categories in complex societies has influenced the organization of higher education by introducing a production-based and marketing logic of flexibility and reduction of training time.