Cultural change and reading. Heading towards a new reading culture

Abstract

The current limitations to the reading practices can probably best be appreci- ated within the cultural changes coinciding with the step from a modern society to a post modern one. These technologies of daily life are changing the way we work, we interact and we live. The sacralisation of the book –characteristic of modernity– is to- tally lacking sense in the current audiovisual world, where millions of youngsters deci- pher rules and develop new abilities using new technological devices. Ignoring the new cultural practices simply leads to cultural misunderstandings between generations, which are causing so much harm to the scholar system. The conditions in the informa- tion societies are calling for a new context for the culture of reading, which will bring up new educational chances.

Keywords

• Lectura
• cambio cultural
• tecnologías de la vida cotidiana
• innovación educativa
• formación del lector