EDUCATION
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1021 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Human sciences |
The process of acquiring or transmitting the condition of becoming and being a biologically, psychologically, mentally and socially well integrated person.
What must be obtained through education is an adaptive set of values, norms and habits tending toward the avoidance of dangerously incoherent or conflictive situations at any level (in J.G. MILLER's sense of the systemic levels of complexity, from organism on) or, when unavoidable, be able to make the necessary adjustments in the best possible way.
Education is at the same time a personal and a societal responsability. It supposes a progressive training at the different levels of the nervous system, and particularly, the different brain levels. As adaptive change is becoming ever more necessary for the individual and in social systems, the historic rigidity in values, norms and habits is becoming inadequate. Education should now include the understanding of change in natural and human environments and the conditions and ways of obtaining a better fit when needed.
It should thus tend to adaptive and permanent autonomous self-regulation through the frequent critical review of one's frames of reference.