“Education is simply
the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Agenda
- Conception of
education
- Comparison of education with
human
- Concept of collective unconscious
- The influence on development
of education
- Why it can be a soul of society?
- Summary
Conception
- Education – multivalued
conception
- The main functions:
- Produce and systemize knowledge
- Accumulate
- Save and spread
- Scientific discoveries
- “Nobel prizes and research
results create the prestige of educational institutions of technology.
The quality of the education, however, is determined by the teacher's
daily instruction.”
International
Society for Engineering
Education,
1988
Comparison with organism
Education
Living organism
Transmission of
information
Collective unconscious
- Carl Gustav Jung
in 1961
- Theory:
Development of individual
is already in its intrauterine provides a total memory of the human
race, called the “collective unconscious”
Archetype
The influence on development
of education
- Requirements for
beneficial education:
- Cultural environment
- Traditions
- Informational background
- Teaching and scientific staff
Why education can be
a soul of society?
- Has same features
with human’s development
- Cultural environment depends
on quality of life and education
- The existence of education
is in …
human minds and soul
Summary
- Functions education
- Produce and systemize knowledge
- Accumulate
- Save and spread
- Scientific discoveries
- Education as socio-biological
organism, transmission of information
- The concept of collective
unconscious , archetypes
- Requirements for beneficial
education, cultural environment
- Education lives and develops
in humans minds’
References
- C. G. Jung.
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious,
2nd ed., trans. by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1969, p. 4.
- International Society for
Engineering Education, 2008, http://leonardo.utb.cz/html/unikla/eur-ingpaed%20en.htm
- National Environmental
Education Foundation, 2008, http://www.neefusa.org/education/
Thank you
Questions?