The objectives of this paper are threefold: firstly, to reconstruct the controversies and the scientific debate on the subject of complexity and on the factors determining its passage to hypercomplexity; secondly, to underline that an interdisciplinary and systemic approach which envisions objects as systems rather than considering systems as objects (as sets of divisible parts) is of the utmost urgency, calling for a radical makeover of our concepts of educative, formative and skill-related processes, overstepping the “false dichotomies” common to education and training, which reinforce the new asymmetries and inequalities emerging today; and finally, to recognize and understand the “great mistake” we are currently making in our attitude to technology in general and digital technology in particular. Keywords: rethinking education, non-linearity, hypercomplexity, controversies, false dichotomies, objects as systems, systemic approach, anthropological transformation, great mistake, hypertechnological era
Controversies on hypercomplexity and on education in the hypertechnological era
Piero Dominici
2019
Abstract
The objectives of this paper are threefold: firstly, to reconstruct the controversies and the scientific debate on the subject of complexity and on the factors determining its passage to hypercomplexity; secondly, to underline that an interdisciplinary and systemic approach which envisions objects as systems rather than considering systems as objects (as sets of divisible parts) is of the utmost urgency, calling for a radical makeover of our concepts of educative, formative and skill-related processes, overstepping the “false dichotomies” common to education and training, which reinforce the new asymmetries and inequalities emerging today; and finally, to recognize and understand the “great mistake” we are currently making in our attitude to technology in general and digital technology in particular. Keywords: rethinking education, non-linearity, hypercomplexity, controversies, false dichotomies, objects as systems, systemic approach, anthropological transformation, great mistake, hypertechnological eraI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.