I think we have clearly entered the time of the anthropocene. Does that change the way we should teach physics and sciences? Or is it just again about good science teaching, but with a specific content?
Holocene–Anthropocene boundary is once which contested.
My understanding is that Holocene is framed on human activity. However a new geological epoch, known as the Anthropocene hypothesised future events. I wonder whose future event? Is it possibly the western configurations.
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The anthropocence probably affects both the what and how of education. The world cannot any longer be seen as something separated from humans, something that is just there to study and learn about - it is affected by humans in many complex ways. As just one example, mining for metals can today access fewer and fewer untouched and rich resources that are easy to exploit in a way that contemporary society can allow under environmental restrictions - instead bioleaching of complex ore, residues and waste and recycling of materials becomes highly important (see the youtube video "Invisible Miners"- or google for the large "Biominewiki" - I was managing the education part of this project.) But what isn't already affected by humans?
A more central factor that should be guiding education development is, I believe, the changing human life within the information society. This is nothing natural either of course. The Oxford philosopher Luciano Floridi argues that humans percieve the world around them more and more as information, not as matter or things. His advice for education (he is a general philosopher, a system builder with a new "prima philosophia") is that we should in education learn "the languages of information" - all from human languages to formulas, concepts and programming to connect data to one another. See the linked publication.
Article E-ducation and the Languages of Information
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I think that an Anthropocene-centered education is needed at any level, and specifically urging if we talk about environment management & protection-related careers and practices. In my field (ecological restoration), an antrhopocene approach is desirable for planning and implementing actions that reflect contemporary trends and dynamics in ecosystem function and environmetnal services provision.
I can reccomend you this recent paper (not my own): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.12560/full
Greetings Dr cool theme but not my specialty, I don't know the answer. Thank you
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