A world-society that ranges from the Westernization of the world to cultural diversity, from progress to poverty, and from the "society's metamorphosis alternatives or its disaster" ( MORIN, 2008a, p.38) seems to have in education an important key to face the scenario of uncertainty that characterizes our common future. Overcoming the fragmentation of knowledge, reconnect knowledge and transpose the shortcomings of the information society set the open horizon of complex knowledge and a reform of thought and education. 'Educating for life' becomes, according to Edgar Morin, the role and mission of education tuned with an ecology of ideas.
Education; learning; complexity