Simplifying complexity: Know thyself and others

Title: Simplifying complexity: Know thyself and others
Creator: Semetsky, Inna
Relation: Complicity: an International Journal of Complexity and Education Vol. 5, Issue 1, p. 63-79
Relation: http://www.complexityandeducation.ualberta.ca/COMPLICITY5/Complicity5_TOC.htm
Publisher: Complexity Science and Educational Research (CSER)
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: In her recent book “Critical lessons: What our schools should teach”, Nel Noddings(2006) reminds us of the ancient “Know Thyself” principle as the necessary, albeit more often than not disregarded, goal of education. It was the quest for meanings and evaluation of experience – an examined vs. unexamined life – that Socrates was calling for. Noddings (2006) is adamant about the importance of self-knowledge as the very core of education: “when we claim to educate, we must take Socrates seriously. Unexamined lives may well be valuable and worth living, but an education that does not invite such examination may not be worthy of the label education” (Noddings 2006)
Subject: self-knowledge; role of education; complexity theory
Identifier: uon:5521
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43408
Identifier: ISSN:1710-5668
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