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education in the evolving systems context

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 11:00am.

More on evolving systems as applied to education at Science, culture, education, and the brain, to wit

"The task is not to get it right but to get it less wrong, not to disprove existing understandings but to recognize their context-dependence, not to discover what is but to construct from conflicting understandings previously unconceived alternative understandings.  The brain already provides each of us with the wherewithal to do this, individually and collectively.  What is needed in addition is only a shared confidence in and commitment to the process of ongoing construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction, in "life itself" as an ongoing evolutionary process.  Education should model this confidence/commitment, and contribute to creating new stories."

Thanks, evolsys colleagues, for contributions to this. 

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