SOME GENERAL TRENDS WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN NATURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION IN THE BEGINNING OF 21ST CENTURY
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2010, Vol 24, Issue 10
Abstract
As a result of tremendous development of science and technology our modern life has become very complex. Diversity and speed has become the main characteristics of our life today. Actual changes in life always are followed by corresponding changes (reforms and transformations) in education, because education means specially organized gaining of life experience for life. Life experience – it means not only knowledge, not only knowledge and skills, but all together knowledge, attitudes or values and skills (Broks, 2010). Education as a process of gaining life experience includes not only traditional learning/teaching, but also development of corresponding value orientation – attitudes. This note is very important today when globalization processes have initiated a loss of clear value orientation for future development of human’s life on global as well as on local scale. World needs more clever and honest people tomorrow when we have today. All mentioned above actual activities in our life and education needs study and conscious use of systems thinking. There are many gaps all around us separating parts of the whole what results in low effectiveness as well as efficiency of many our life activities. The problem of bridging these gaps has become actuality. Modern systems theory as theory of systems thinking is an effective tool when solving complex problems not only in natural and technical sciences, but also in sociology and humanities (Broks, 2010; Sterling, 2003; Agoshkova, 2010; Давидов, 2008; Wilber, 2007). Systemology as applied theory of systems theory within definite branch of our life seams to be very perspective tool to manage many sophisticated situations. Systemology of Education is just one example of such practical use of general systems theory for solving corresponding complex social problems (Broks, 2010). World globally and locally needs clever and honest people – good luck to all of us when developing corresponding theory and practice of education as life experience for life in the 21st century!
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Andris Broks
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