Introduction
Humanity is facing at present a deep transformation in every domain of human life: politics, economics, social relationships, religious beliefs, etc. If we accept Castells’s approach (Castells 1997), the core of this transformation is the process of globalization dominated by the web and the flows of information. Both web and flows are characterized by flexibility, so that they can adapt very fast at any change in the environment, and mobility, because they keep changing all the time. There is not any specific center of the web, only nodes that also can change, grow, and disappear.
Societies are connected through rapid, large-scale networks on interaction, modifying daily our notions of time and space. However, as long as these globalization processes are dominated by neoliberal conception of society, it is economics that is the mainstream of every policy implemented by governments and all social institutions; and only those policies that yield an increase in money...
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García Moriyón, F. (2015). Human Rights and Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_333-1
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