ISSS WORKSHOP

System literacy for thrivable future.

We invite you to our workshop at the International System Science Society Conference,
Boulder, USA : July 26, 2016

Our standpoint

There is a clear need for systemic redesign of education in order to give humanity tools to deal with rising volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the world. The system science, especially systemic thinking and evolutionary system design, should play a key role in the emerging transition. International System Science Society has the ability to foster this process.

What we are doing

We are inviting leading system scientists and educational innovators to explore the new paradigm for education and co-design a federated course on systemic thinking. Our vision for this course is not limited to offering a popular understanding of any particular domain of system science, nor to giving just an overview of existing fields in system science. The course itself should be designed to manifest a new educational paradigm.

Opening statements will be delivered by

Alexander Laszlo

ISSS ex-president.
Head of ISSS Board of Trustees
ITBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dino Karabeg

Co-founder of Knowledge Federation,
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Pavel Luksha

Global Education Future director,
Skolkovo School of Management, Moscow, Russia.

And then we will dive into collaborative

systemic design for system literacy.

Here is our current vision:

Systemic change can be acheived only when the ends and the means are aligned.
The course itself should foster the evolution of education into collobarative eco-system for thrivable wisdom-based society.
We do not claim to have the full and “correct” vision for the new paradigm, but here are some elements that we believe are essential:

Collaboration – the course should be design for study groups rather then individuals.
Hybrid – while part of the content should be provided on-line, at the same time groups should be engaged into off-line activities: discussions, games, collective idea explorations.
Glocal – the course should be offered around the globe, to engage different worldviews and not be limited to Western, educated, industrial, rich and democratic (WEIRD) culture. Engaging different people we should connect global ideas with local reality.
Diversity – the groups should be multidisciplinary and offered to mixed age groups.
Community – the groups should not be limited to academia institutions, but may also engage non-academia communities interested in systemic thinking.
Direct dialogue – we want to engage leading scientists into direct dialogue with students of this course through a series of webinars
Synthesizing – the course should not be limited to any particular field of system science but rather provide a framework for a systemic thinking
Practice oriented – apart from learning theory students should be asked to practice system thinking to describe systems around them.
Tangible result – such result may be a global systemic map of some particular domain of human culture.

Those ideas are not set in stone but open to further development.

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