Aprendizaje e identidad: El papel de la educación formal en la construcción de las identidades. Presentación

This special issue about education, learning and identity arise as result of the debates generated in a Simposium presented to the Congress Cultural-Historical, Activity and Sociocultural Research at Times of the Contemporary Crisis: Implications for Education and Human Development, celebrated in July of 2016 in Crete (Greece). Its main aim is to generate a global view about what different research groups are studying in relation to how the participation in formal education settings suppose, beyond cognitive learning, an important contribution to the identity construction of the people that participate in them. From this idea, seven papers are presented here, organized not as typical research papers, but as reflexions about shared questions that are considered key in order to advance in the human development’s comprehension, specifically in this case, about the relations between formal education and identity construction. The monograph is closing with a final article that tries to summarise the most important points that are being considered in the whole work, all of them from a clear sociocultural paradig