The Emerging Paradigm, Geoff Fagan, Director CADISPA, University of Strathclyde
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How is it possible after one hundred and forty years of public education in the UK that whole sections of our population can be deemed uneducated? How was it that research or ‘finding out’ has been allowed to be usurped by the educational elite when it is the most natural everyday activity and used daily and in depth by every parent or pensioner - constituting normal, day to day living for millions of people. How can it be that the learning people have done in solving everyday problems of sustainable living can be, in some way, discounted as learning that is not of real importance: a second class of knowing that fails to reach the standard that would justify it as worthy of lasting recognition? The hard reality is that the very learning and research celebrated as being worthy of being passed on to new learners, has led us into a situation where the world is facing a crisis of incredible proportions.
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