Light pedagogy in hypermodern times: the homeschooling, the Waldorf schools, and the new ignatian pedagogy

Abstract

Gilles Lipovetisky’s work is a reference to analyze the hypermodern societies. In his last book entitled De la ligereza (2016) the French author studies the paradigm sustaining a civilization based on the notion of lightness. This approach contains implications in the field of education. In this paper we analyze first of all the theoretical possibilities of counterpoising the heaviness and the lightness to encourage the pedagogical thinking. On the other hand, in order to delve into the analysis, we focus on three educative proposals integrating central notions of the light pedagogy which are undergoing a growing demand of their educative proposal: a) homeschooling, unschooling and flexi-schooling, b) Waldorf education, and c) Catalan Jesuit schools participating in the project Horitzó 2020.

Keywords

• gilles lipovetsky
• pedagogía ligera
• homeschooling
• pedagogía waldorf
• pedagogía ignaciana