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Quo Vadis EducACTION (about discourses and trends in social innovation, education, sustainable development and ACTION)
The document discusses the profound global crisis and the gap between knowledge and action regarding sustainability, highlighting the need for social innovation and new paradigms in education. It emphasizes the emerging challenges in society, including economic contradictions and the necessity for integrating creativity and entrepreneurial skills into educational frameworks. The final reflections indicate that social innovation is pivotal for sustainable development and requires a rethinking of educational structures to foster a collaborative social order.
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- 1. [email protected] 7th International Conferenceon Interdisciplinary SOCIAL SCIENCES 25-28 June 2012- Universidad Aba Oliva CEU, Barcelona (Spain)
- 2. Education & action Past Turning point? Fritjof Capra (1982) FUTURE
- 3. Education & action FUTURE Turning point? Fritjof Capra (1982) Past
- 4. OUTLINE THE GAPBETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION SOCIAL INNOVATION :THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW PARADIGM SI & SUSTAINABILITY DISCOURSES FINAL REFLECTIONS (AND EDUCATION: QUO VADIS?)
- 5. EDUCATION: THE GAP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION
- 6. “At the beginningof the last two decades of our century, we find ourselves in a state of PROFOUND, WORLD-WIDE CRISIS. It is a complex, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CRISIS whose facets touch EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES. It is a crisis of intellectual, moral, and spiritual dimensions; a crisis of a scale and urgency UNPRECEDENTED in recorded human history. For the first time we have to face the very real threat of EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN RACE and of all life on this planet” Fritjof Capra (1982). The Turning point.
- 7. Has there beena decline in commitment to sustainability? 2012! 1992 1972 1962
- 8. Rio+20 provides an(other) enormous opportunity to move forward to a new development paradigm …
- 9. The big contradiction Economicgrowth and SD= positive correlation?
- 10. Humankind‟s path isa continuous evolution of social networks that build the “Web of Life” in our planet, which seeks self-knowledge and understanding of their own existence …
- 11. … ofour individual identity … of our awareness about our existence on the planet … and building new concepts and theoretical ‘constructs’ (dignity, human rights, innovation, sustainable development, ‘smart’ growth …)
- 12. DIFFERENT THEORIES =DIFFERENT NETS = DIFFERENT REALITIES “the net which we throw out in order to catch the world - to rationalize, explain, and dominate it” Karl Popper. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery, London: Hutchinson, p. 26. Rather, our knowledge of reality is formed by the perception of a real situation and by the interpretation, i.e. the image ... (Thomas Theorem).
- 13. WORLD VIEWS INFORMAL EDUCATION
- 14. Perceptions and imagesof the planetary crisis: an example “Learning to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions, and to take action against the oppressive elements of that reality” (Freire, 1974) 100 1992-2000 90 2000-2009 80 70 60 50 40 30 SD 20 10 0 0 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.1 3.2 3.3 4 4.1 4.2 4.2* 4.3 Biology and Geology Science Books, N= 69 de 1992-2000 and N = 54 de 2000-2009 http://lsg.ucy.ac.cy/esera/phd/abstract107.html
- 15. CRISIS AND SOCIALDISCOURSES „the profound change which the advent of 'fluid modernity' has brought to the human condition‟ Bauman, Z. (2000). Liquid modernity. • The multi-crisis (environment, economy, society, governance, ethics …) • Liquid modernity, liquid times, liquid life … (Bauman, 2000, 2005) • Living in an age of uncertainty and risk … (Beck, 2002) • Don‟t worry, be happy (market without frontiers, consumer society, planned obsolescence in industrial design, individualism …) • An example: The shock of the rapidly rising phenomenon of the graduate unemployment
- 16. CRISIS AND SOCIALDISCOURSES • „Smart‟ growth or … de-growth? • Transition to a green economy • The search (or emergence) of a new social order? • Innovation: the magic potion In education • The cognitive revolution (we need to learn with our „all‟ brain, Robinson, 2005) • ITCs and the increasing of non-formal and informal learning („invisible learning‟ - Cobo and Moravec, 2011); connectivism – Downes …)
- 17. Dialogues: „The futurewe want‟ don’t worry: be happy http://www.earthsummit2012.org/news/1064-book-launch-only-one-earth-the-long- road-via-rio-to-sustainable-development
- 18. SOCIAL INNOVATION: THE EMERGENCEOF A NEW PARADIGM
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- 22. F. Moulaert D. Harrison B. Lévesque S. Conger A. Hubert SOCIAL G. Mulgan innovation J. Howaldt A. Gurrutxaga J. Echeverría J. Hochgerner 22 A. Rodríguez & Alvarado
- 23. DEFINITION OF SI „socialinnovations are innovations that are social in both their ends and their means. Specifically, we define social innovations as new ideas (products, services and models) that simultaneously meet social needs (more effectively than alternatives) and create new social relationships or collaborations. They are innovations that are not only good for society but also enhance society‟s capacity to act‟ Hubert (2010, p. 7)
- 24. The SOCIAL The technological shape of shape of SOCIAL TECHNOLOGICAL innovation innovation ≠ ≠ Social IMPACT DIFFUSION OF of innovation INNOVACIÓN
- 25. What is What is viable DESIRABLE in the to users? MARKET? „TRADITIONAL‟ TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION What is What is the POSSIBLE with most TECHNOLOGY? PROFITABLE? Which are the What real REAL SOCIETY NEEDS? demands? SOCIAL INNOVATION Is TECHNOLOGY What VALUES useful or an produces? enabler …?
- 26. SI & SUSTAINABILITY DISCOURSES
- 27. INNOVACIÓN TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY SI SI DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT SI SI SI SI SI?
- 28. New words …new discourses Innovation is at the core of the EU 2020 Strategy where is presented as a key element to achieving smart, sustainable and inclusive growth „smart growth‟ is used to mean „developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation‟ Transforming innovation for sustainability (Leach et al., 2012).
- 29. FINAL REFLECTIONS (AND EDUCATION: QUO VADIS?)
- 30. CREATIVITY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION COMPETENCES New Blogs PBL Long life paradigms PLAN TIC, e-; b-; m-learning learning Scholar violence Skills and competences Curriculum Projects Active e-portfolio learning Assessment Webquest EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- 31. LEARNING # EDUCATION
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- 35. Some final reflections SI is a multi-faceted concept which can be placed at the intersection of spontaneous and rationally organized movements at the micro, meso or macro levels of society (bottom-up). Not all SI is bottom-up … Globally, the mainstream sustainability agenda is mostly about eco-efficiency and consumer demand Greening actions and transformation of local consumption can contribute to changes in local social order SI start at grassroots level around the world …
- 36. Education for sustainabilityAND innovation Continuing with adjustments to adapt to the changed context, as has frequently been the case in last years ? We need ... … openness to new ways of thinking about education … incorporation of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship competences together with competences for „sustainability‟ („partial‟ solution) … integration between formal, in-formal and non-formal education (others places and environments? Embbedding in community? … other kind of structures! (re-thinking the formal institutions of education)
- 37. THE SOCIAL IMAGINATION Wright Mills, C. (1959)
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