Noticias

2022-02-24

Martes 1 de marzo de 2022

11:30 Sesión introductoria a la teoría del aprendizaje transformacional dentro de la asignatura Educational Psychology (Grado en Magisterio de Educación Primaria, UAH). Evento virtual para los asistentes que no sean estudiantes de la asignatura.

16:00 Seminario: Dialogic Rationality: A Response to Today‘s Epistemic Crisis. Actividad vinculada al IEDDAI y al Programa de Doctorado en Educación de la UAH. Sesión híbrida (pudiendo asistir presencial o virtualmente)

We live in an age when propaganda, ‘fake news’, conspiracy theories, and misinformation have become so ubiquitous that our very notions of truth and knowledge have eroded away. Lacking a foundation for shared understandings, we drift into echo chambers, engaging only with the news, social media, and communities that support our existing biases and views. This situation contributes to the increasing political divide that we see across the Western world. We call this an ‘epistemic crisis’ because a widespread lack of consensus about knowledge and how it is acquired makes it difficult to have constructive dialogues across difference, and therefore impossible for democracy to function within our societies and for international conflict resolution.

With what conceptual tools can educators address this crisis. Whereas postmodernism was an important counter to simplistic notions of truth, knowledge, power, and ‘progress,’ it does not help us work our way out of today’s epistemic crisis. As scholars and practitioners of education, we need a post-postmodernism, which we argue begins with a renewed emphasis on developing epistemically responsible learners. This presentation explores key concepts for such an effort: Bounded Rationality, Autonomy, and Pluralism. These concepts have important implications for what a ‘transformative education’ should and should not attempt to do.

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