Why do they Call it Education when they Mean… Employability? On the Concept of Utility in Education

Abstract

The work is framed in the field of relations between education and the labour market. The focus of our analysis will be from Philosophy and Theory of Education and not from Labour Pedagogic. Without any doubt, this relationship is possible by the evolution, fastest growing, of professional profiles more valued by the labour market, and its relationship with the qualification required for its realization. Qualifications, most of time, given by higher education institutions likes colleges and universities. Thus, the University is at a crossroads between career guidance o vocal education and the engagement with its traditional liberal education. In our work we try to analyse the notion of utility, and the need to have methodologies in higher education to overcome and reconcile these traditions.