This article intends to give continuity to the debate on - and the reflections about - Distance Education (EaD). With this purpose in mind, we make, in the first place, some general considerations about this type of education and the use and development of the New Information and Communication Technologies (NTIC) in present society. Secondly, and mostly in connection with teachers' training, we suggest that there is a need for a 'critical didacticism', able to break away from the technicist models that, to date, have predominated in EaD. For this purpose, we try to recover or to approach the political and ethical dimensions of teaching and those that encourage the development of critical subjects and professionals.
distance education; democratization of teaching; critical didacticism; critical professionals