Complex abstract thinking in the classroom

Abstract

Currently it prevails in our society the Cartesian linear thinking. This has resulted in today’s world a profound social, cultural and political crisis. Education also is crossed by this crisis. The changes that have occurred in the world transitioned from a long industrial period to a different one characterized by information, communications, mobility, development of knowledge and complexity, has not yet had its counterpart in the way of understanding.
The current Cartesian or engineering paradigm prevents current generations know how to live in contemporary society. This has meant a daunting planetary damage that can put into question even human life. In necessary, then the construction of a new way of thinking.
One of the most important academic tasks today is to try to determine the cognitive deficits of humanity and how they are transferred to education. At the same time, the mission of overcoming them, to discover how to set up a new way of thinking, to train, to educate, a new paradigm
epistemology that allows us to understand our planetary home through a systemic, holistic paradigm, logical arises, transdisciplinary and complex
From this perspective it is possible to cause the momentous changes that education and training of citizens need to deliver a complex vision and quality to children, young students and professionals today are emerging from universities