Educating for the Future in the Age of Obsolescence
The anthropological transformation we are undergoing shows the urgency of rethinking teaching and training, underlining the substantial inadequacy of our schools and universities in dealing with hypercomplexity, with the global extension of all political, social and cultural processes, with their...
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Risk Institute, Trieste- Geneva
2020-11-01
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| description | The anthropological transformation we are undergoing shows the urgency of rethinking
teaching and training, underlining the substantial inadequacy of our schools and universities
in dealing with hypercomplexity, with the global extension of all political, social and cultural
processes, with their indeterminateness, interdependence and interconnection. The idea that
educational processes are questions of a purely technical and/or technological nature, solely
a problem of skills and know-how, is a “great mistake” of the hypertechnological society,
based on the illusion of being able to measure, simplify and quantify everything, to eliminate
error and unpredictability, to achieve total control and rationality. It is necessary to rethink
education radically because the extraordinary scientific discoveries and the dynamics of the
new technologies have completely overturned the complex interaction between biological
and cultural evolution, doing away with the borders between the natural and the artificial,
leading us not towards simplification, but in quite the opposite direction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b8499482bfc54bd3aa6fd351e5a9fdf62022-12-21T19:21:53ZengRisk Institute, Trieste- GenevaCadmus2038-52502020-11-014393109Educating for the Future in the Age of ObsolescencePiero Dominici0Associate Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Scientific Director, International Research and Education Program CHAOS, Department of Philosophy, Social and Human Sciences & Education, University of Perugia, ItalyThe anthropological transformation we are undergoing shows the urgency of rethinking teaching and training, underlining the substantial inadequacy of our schools and universities in dealing with hypercomplexity, with the global extension of all political, social and cultural processes, with their indeterminateness, interdependence and interconnection. The idea that educational processes are questions of a purely technical and/or technological nature, solely a problem of skills and know-how, is a “great mistake” of the hypertechnological society, based on the illusion of being able to measure, simplify and quantify everything, to eliminate error and unpredictability, to achieve total control and rationality. It is necessary to rethink education radically because the extraordinary scientific discoveries and the dynamics of the new technologies have completely overturned the complex interaction between biological and cultural evolution, doing away with the borders between the natural and the artificial, leading us not towards simplification, but in quite the opposite direction.https://www.cadmusjournal.org/article/volume-4/issue-3/educating-for-the-future |
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