In the globalization scenarios we currently face, educational systems are challenged by different and sometimes competing pressures and requests. These call for a deep transformation of the organization, role, and social function of educational systems. Within this context, the very concept of education has come to be understood in different ways, which sometimes distort its moral and social value. In this essay, Maura Striano contends that from a Deweyan perspective, educational transformation must be seen as strictly connected to social change, and education should be understood as a process that facilitates and supports social growth and development. In order to be effective and fruitful, Striano suggests, this transformation must occur from the inside of educational systems and can only be brought about by reflective and inquiry‐based inner processes if it is to have a sound moral and social impact within the changing framework of the globalized world.
That education shares in the confusion of transition, and in the demand for reorganization, is a source of encouragement and not of despair. It proves how integrally the school is bound up with the entire movement of modern life. —John Dewey, The Educational Situation
On the basis of a thorough comparative analysis of the Forum contributions to the last issue of "Narrative Inquiry" (21:2), it is possible to focus on some patterns which indicate the development of a new paradigm in this field of study and practice. These patterns lead us to understand narrative as co-constructed, dialogical, educational. ethical, multi-perspectival, relational, political, provisional, social and situational and place it in a non exclusive confrontation with other forms of meaning making within the different fields of human experience.
Author retains copyright and grants the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. 'fusion of horizons' operates through our developing new vocabularies of comparison, by means of which we can articulate these contrasts" (Taylor 1994: 67). 7. We wrote these lines before the Brexit referendum. The UK vote resonates with the passions and hopes of nationalist political leaders throughout Europe, who aim at turning back the hands of time, and introduces a note of uncertainty for the EU project. The main trends we have indicated here, albeit in an admittedly aspirational way, are nevertheless unlikely to undergo a substantial reversal. The new situation, however, does require further inquiries toward new understandings of the project of a transnational Europe. 8. iversity.org [ iversity.org/] is a Europe-based on-line education platform, created by Jonas Liepmann and Hannes Klöpper. It has operated since 2013 in the sector of higher education through on line courses and lectures mostly provided in English and German.
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