Paradigm Educational Materialist for the Pedagogy of the 21st Century

Since the second half of the twentieth century, postmodern theories of discourse and language ideology has seized the collective imagination of society and education, mainly through the curriculum, pedagogical models, constructivism and the massmedia. In Higher Education, these are accentuated after the eighties, which contributed to sacrifice the materialistic ideas and the postmodern position within a framework of irrefutable ideological bias. The market economy of neoliberal ideology spreads a unique style of absolute truth, education paradigms of language and discourse that dislocates and deconstructs reality, articulated with the massmedia, encourages alienation. Neoliberalism destroys the environment and deepends social inequalities. These facts, analyzed from the dialectical and historical materialism, has positioned the latter, as a valid research method of gaining knowledge and discovering reality, the world, life and nature, interpreting the exact sciences and humanities, and analyzing the rapid structural changes in economy, politics, society and education