Education: Part of the problem or
part of the solution?
Alberto Zucconi
World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS)
World University Consortium (WUC)
Person Centered Approach Institute (IACP)
azucconi@iacp.it
Conference on Education: Building block of Shared Societies and
Values , Sarajevo, June 25, 2014,
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We cannot solve the
problems of today at the
level of thinking at which
they were first created
Albert Einstein
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We need new and effective
ways to cope to meet our
present and future
challenges
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There is ample scientific evidence that
our relationship with ourselves, others
and the planet is the main variable
influencing all the aspects of our lives.
We need to see, think, feel and act
systemically, interdisciplinary,
intersectorially
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Education is one mayor building
block of the social construction of
reality. In the Antropocene Era,
humanity needs to face the rising
problems that ignorance,
alienation and mechanistic
reductionist education have
contribute to create
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Our social construction of professional
competence is largely obsolete since various
professions are still construed by using the
outmoded mechanistic reductionist divisions of
the traditional fields of expertise
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This situation reflects the limited knowledge of
the world we had when the modern
professional and scientific disciplines first
emerged and continue to be stifled by the lines
of jurisdiction in these traditional divisions of
expert labor.
Andrew Abbott, 1988
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Fragmented knowledge
is a form of
disempowerment
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The world most urgent and
challenging educational
issue is to make education
more functional to the
pressing needs of society
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Education to become more effective needs to shift:
from subject centered to human-centered learning
from passive to active learning
from memorization or understanding to thinking and original
thinking
from information or mental understanding to development of the
whole person
from academic theoretical to life-centered knowledge
from fragmented knowledge to integrated knowledge
shift from creating standardized products to fostering the
development of resilience, individuality and creativity
Education should be explicitly value-based and related to the
comprehensive agenda of fundamental human rights
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We need to bring together not only top universities,
but all the stakeholders for the creation of a process
that will generate effective understanding and offer
effective solutions to the problems we face society.
We need to develop a new paradigm in education,
in order to develop updated and effective research,
education and knowledge and best practices.
This is fundamental for the creation
and maintenance of shared societies
and values!!
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Among the initiatives that work for a more effective education is
the World University Consortium (WUC) that will :
Facilitate the process of collaboration among all the
stakeholders in order to create a new paradigm of effective
education enabling people to effectively cope with the world’
present & future challenges
Promote the formulation of effective answers to the current
crisis of education and society
Develop a passport of competencies : by which degrees and
competencies will be validated around the world
Make available to all the knowledge and best practices that
the world presently needs
This process is also a product!
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To involve all the stakeholders in promoting awareness of
the pressing issues we need to face.
To create education processes that are people-centered &
person centered, grounded on developing human
potentialities, based on deep respect, empathic
understanding for ourselves, others and all the planet
lifeforms .
Education that trains people to see themselves and
everything else as part od the web of life.
By understanding the importance of mutual relationships at
every level , we can promote effectively human and natural
capital development, resilience and sustainable
development
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Bosnia- Herzegovina has a chance to
became a leader, a role model by learning
from its tragic recent experiences and
creating effective and functional Peoplecentered and person –centered social
learning process
That will foster virtuous processes badly
needed not only in BiH but by every
nation and community around the world
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Alberto Zucconi
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World University Consortium (WUC)
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World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS)
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Person Centered Approach Institute (IACP)
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