Educational Theory of the Unforeseen
Subtitle: Educating for an Unpredictable Future
By: Herner Saeverot and Glenn-Egil Torgersen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781350356092; 9781350356054; 9781350356061; 9781350356078; 9781350356085
Subjects: Education; Forecasting; Philosophy & theory of education
Description: Is it possible to teach, learn and train for something that is not yet known? This open access book is the first to present research-based studies of the values and dangers of unforeseen events related to education. The climate emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise of authoritarianism and extremism have placed new demands on different sectors' views of knowledge, as well as the content and facilitation of education. The unforeseen interferes with the everyday life of everyone. The authors present pedagogy of the unforeseen as an opportunity, a productive moment, one can utilize for learning in which traditional views of knowledge, methods and strategies must be challenged. They argue that less emphasis should be placed on goals and results in school-based education and for teaching methods that better prepare students for unforeseen events.  The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Western Norway University.
Notes: Open Access Unrestricted online access

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Table of contents: title: Introduction 1. Educating for what we cannot foresee as opportunity and destructiveness 2. What signifies the concept of the unforeseen? 3. Do we need new ways of understanding time when it comes to pedagogy related to the unforeseen? 4. Strategic didactic model for the unforeseen 5. Digital awakening in the risk society 6. How to interact under threatening and unpredicted conditions 7. Skills and competencies for teaching and dealing with unforeseen events Conclusion: Identifying, developing and understanding knowledge for PUN References Index