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Education is an agent of change that reveals
the potentialities inherent in human reality.
Each individual can make a difference in
changing apathy to action for our future.
We live at a global turning point in the history of humankind -- a period laden with unprecedented promises and threats. Education and pedagogical science need to assume a central and active role in building a sustainable global future at this historic turning point. Without a credible philosophical and ethical foundation, the science of education would be incapable of shouldering such a task.
A meta-theory is needed for enabling the coherent exploration and harnessing of the phenomenon of education. This study pursues such exploration by searching into the universals of education in the context of the General Systems Theory. Of particular interest are those universals that relate to moral existence and global ethos. This approach interprets education as the constructive force throughout human evolution and places pedagogical science in the spotlight of futures studies. It is possible to pursue a theory of education that evokes the values and principles that humankind genuinely needs.
The current predicament of humanity presents us with a futuristic choice: Do we want to be reactive pawns drifting in the flow of global change, or do we want to have some control over our futures and manage change towards a desirable and sustainable paradigm of globalization? It is this choice that can utilize education as an agent of change to overcome primitive human urges and to reveal the potentialities inherent in human reality.
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© 2003
ISSN 0788-7604
ISBN 951-634-858-0
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