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The article looks at the current status of education in a globalized, knowledge-based society, taking into account scenarios of school development and their fulfillment. It deals with the transformation of the traditional character of education under pressure from the economic model which is now dominant within society, and especially the specific role of the primary school and its possibilities for development in relation to a re-schooling trajectory. The disputes between educational ideological doctrines (economizing, philosophizing, sociologizing and psychologizing) over the character of the systemic transformation of education shall also be looked at, suggesting syncretic approaches as a way of reconciling these disputes.