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Category Archives: Knowledge
Life and death of the knowledge industry
WHOM TO TRUST for food for thought? In a confusing world, we are left to opt for one dominant pattern of behavior or the other: to lock ourselves into a bubble, where increasingly prolific media churn out large quantities of … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge, Knowledge domains, Knowledge systems
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Age of Entanglement
To every age, a relic: a loom, an automobile, the PC, a 3D printer. L’Encyclopédie was its period’s signpost, cataloguing and concretizing the boundaries between the disciplines, which emerged from the “long eighteenth century” of the Enlightenment. For the next … Continue reading
The Shivers of Knowledge
Aesthetic chills occur in artistic, scientific and religious context. We introduce a theoretical framework relating them to humans’ vital need for cognition. We discuss the implications of such a framework and the plausibility of our hypothesis. Numerous references to chills … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetic chills, Curiosity, Knowledge, Pleasure
Tagged aesthetic chills, curiosity, knowledge, pleasure
Curiosity through Embracing Uncertainty
In the classroom, subjects are often presented as settled and complete. Teachers lecture students as if no further questioning is needed because all the answers have been found. In turn, students regurgitate what they’ve been told, confident they’ve learned all … Continue reading
Posted in Curiosity, Curiosity-based learning, Ignorance, Knowledge, Uncertainty
Tagged curiosity, curiosity-based learning, ignorance, knowledge, uncertainty
Social Consciousness, Education and Transformative Activity
This paper examines two aspects of social consciousness: consciousness in the sense of knowledge of the objective reality and consciousness in the sense of awareness of oneself as a subject in his/her social ties with other persons-subjects. In the light … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Empiricism, Knowledge, Learning, Social emancipation, Subjectivity, Teaching
Tagged consciousness, empiricism, knowledge, Learning, social emancipation, subjectivity, teaching
Movements making Knowledge: a new wave of Inspiration for Sociology?
Sociology’s marginality to public discussion of the crisis stems partly from naïveté about the sociology of its own knowledge, in particular about its interlocutors’ interests. Historically, sociology has repeatedly re-established its intellectual relevance through its dialogue with movements for social … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge, Social movements, Sociology
Tagged knowledge, social movements, sociology
Curiosity: Care, Virtue and Pleasure in Uncovering the New
It is no longer controversial or suspicious to be curious. But, until recently, there has been little curiosity about curiosity itself. This has begun to change, with the publication of a series of books asking what curiosity is and why … Continue reading
Posted in Curiosity, Curiosity-based learning, Curious, Knowing, Knowledge
Tagged curiosity, curiosity-based learning, curious, knowing, knowledge
Autopoiesis and Knowledge in Self-Sustaining Organizational Systems
Knowledge and the communication of knowledge are critical for self-sustaining organizations comprised of people and the tools and machines that extend peoples’ physical and cognitive capacities. Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela proposed the concept of autopoiesis (“self” + “production”) as … Continue reading
Posted in Autopoiesis, Knowledge, Self-sustaining organizations, Systems
Tagged autopoiesis, knowledge, self-sustaining organizations, systems
Futures of Education for Rapid Global Societal Change
Education today has more in common with the nineteenth-century industrial age than with the twenty-first century. It is fragmented and compartmentalized, clinging to a factory approach to learning. We need to move away from mass education towards pluralism and planetary … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Culture, Education, Futures, Knowledge
Tagged consciousness, culture, education, futures, knowledge
Networked Connectivity and Adult Learning – Social Media the Knowledgeable Other and Distance Education
Over the past decades, information technology has had a disruptive effect on adult education. Today, learners can access libraries from their pocket and shape their thoughts while socializing on networks. The position of educators as ‘knowledgeable others’ has been challenged … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge, Knowledge worker, Networked learning
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