Assaulting utilitarianism against education sciences

Abstract

This text was first published in a reduced version, "Who wants the death of education sciences?"? (MEIRIEU et al., 2014). Here, it was revised and enriched. The text deals with the purposes of education sciences and its distortion due to utilitarian values. It is explained that utilitarianism refers to the pursuit of individual interests that emphasize the economic dimension as the only vector of human behavior and its diffusion prioritize market values that reach the universities depreciating them on their human and social aims.

Keywords:
education sciences; educational aims; utilitarianism; educational mercantilism