No. 82 (2022): Special issue: Hacker spirit. Empowering digital citizens

Based on the hacker movement inspired by Pekka Himanen (The hacker's ethics and the spirit of the information age), this monograph seeks to deepen the debate on the approach of these movements to education and school in particular. It starts from the principles of the hacker movement to envision and propose a hacker-style education: the strong presence of collaboration; doing in love with one's own doing; experimentation as a formative process; error being an important element for formative processes; among others.

It is strategic to think about the movements around free software, open access, the possibilities of Open Educational Resources (OER) in connection with the debate on copyright and the various possibilities of licensing scientific, cultural and educational materials, and going further, the development of artificial intelligence, machine-learning, or the use of blockchain. These issues present us with a major challenge in the face of the massive presence of large digital platforms in education, known as the big techs or GAFAM (acronym for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft), which dominate the educational field in a process identified with a colonisation of public education in much of the Western world.

So this monograph has this objective: to aggregate and publish studies and experiences that face such challenges in order to become a favourable environment for the collective production of meanings and knowledge about hacker education.