Our current educational systems reflect forms of thinking and organizing that are not appropriate for the twenty-first century. New transdisciplinary educational approaches should integrate complexity, creativity, and an awareness of the most recent developments in the sciences.The relationship between complexity theory and education deserves far greater attention, because complexity leads to new concepts and approaches in education. The focus on complexity also reflects the need for a new way to understand a networked society, a world where interconnectedness, interdependence, uncertainty, and emergence play central roles. It demands reflection and the teaching of reflection, the development of complex thought; it requires going beyond reductionism, disjunction, and abstraction. Crucially, it requires the integration of the inquirer into the inquiry, and leads to a completely different, transdisciplinary approach. These are radically different aims from the ones typically proposed by current educational institutions.
Gianluca Bocchi (G. B.)Edgar Morin has already indicated the road to follow in order to bring about this type of education and it can be found clearly explained in as well as his numerous
In this article we analyse the problem of emergence in its diachronic dimension. In other words, we intend to deal with the generation of novelties in natural processes. Our approach aims at integrating some insights coming from Whitehead's Philosophy of the Process with the epistemological framework developed by the "autopoietic" tradition. Our thesis is that the emergence of new entities and rules of interaction (new "fields of relatedness") requires the development of discontinuous models of change. From this standpoint natural evolution can be conceived as a succession of emergences -each one realizing a novel "extended" present, described by distinct models -rather than as a single and continuous dynamics. This theoretical and epistemological framework is particularly suitable to the investigation of the origin of life, an emblematic example of this kind of processes.Keywords: diachronic emergence, constructivism, hierarchy theory, non-algorithmic processes, origin of life.
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