Educate to the future. Irony in complexity times

• Main Author: Chiara Carletti
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bologna 2021-06-01
• Series: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica
• Subjects: education; complexity; change; irony; meta-cognition
• Online Access: https://rpd.unibo.it/article/view/11737

The paper re-evaluates, in the light of the socio-economic, cultural, political and health transformations of recent months, the importance of an education that teaches how to deal with change, through the adoption of new paradigms of thought capable of reading and understanding complexity. This is an essential challenge that can only be met by restoring centrality to education. It is necessary to start again from the idea of a new project of man and citizen that is able to open up to the future and unexpected, therefore to relate to what he does not know, starting from the questioning of himself. Irony in this sense represents an important pedagogical and formative category to inhabit postmodernism, which requires the subject to have a global and complex vision of the problems in order to reach new horizons of awareness.