Professor Steve Gough Inaugural Lecture: Is Education Unnatural?
24 June 2013
In this lecture Professor
Steve Gough spoke to explore inconsistencies in the way we think of education, and to examine the
role of human learning as our interactions with nature - particularly through economic activity -
create and re-create our environment.
Using examples from history Professor Gough went on to demonstrate that education plays a crucial role in determining whether, in the long term, particular societies adapt to change or die out. That role is natural in our species. However, a new challenge faces us: not whether one society or another survives, but whether our globalized society survives at all. Meeting that challenge may require a new, and in a sense unnatural, educational response.
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