Abstract
Globalization and the growing complexity and breadth of the phenomena that humanity must face put pressure on many scenarios, and as expected, it occurs on the educational scenario too. The curricula incorporate XXI century skills, HsXXI, to meet growing needs and give individuals more significant opportunities. However, it is not obvious that the decisions made are implemented, nor that teachers have sufficient preparation for them. Furthermore, we must consider the possibility that these measures may be inappropriate for teachers and may exclude a sector of students and might be exercising symbolic violence over the majority of them. On the other hand, since 1990, Ricardo Cantoral, his collaborators, and his followers have been developing an educational perspective of mathematics that does not begin in school but in the society that produces and uses this knowledge. In this essay, paying tribute to Ricardo Cantoral, we examine one of his works as an explicit option to make use of Socioepistemology to deal with the complex problem indicated, and we conclude that this option is appropriate to address it and that placing the problem it vis-à-vis the HsXXI allows us to update those categories.
Socioepistemology; 21st-century skills; Exclusion; Symbolic violence