Educational Complexity Epistemology for Edgar Morin: Education Reform for Building the Future

Abstract

In the letter written by Edgar Moran on the occasion of his centenary (1921/2021), this multidisciplinary thinker who, throughout his intellectual life spanning more than sixty years, expressed the theory of epistemology of complexity about the permanence of unpredictability in this world and throughout human history. This means the perpetuation of transformations and the entrenchment of crises at all levels. This makes us plan to raise generations to confront this structure of the world. Therefore, the educational situation, which must be shaped according to the structure of knowledge, becomes the only outlet for facing a future characterized by ambiguity and open to all expectations. This is what makes us think to establish an educational system structurally and implicitly prepared to face all future possibilities, and it is precisely in this preparation that educational success lies. This is what prompts us to pose the central question, which requires the disclosure of an educational philosophy based on the introspection of change rather than identity, which is: How do we link between the theory of synthetic knowledge and education? In that, we followed a comparative analysis in order to benefit from this theory in diagnosing the problems of local breeding. The most important result we obtained is the inevitability of establishing educational contents and structures on the results of other sciences that prove day after day the lack of simplicity of reality.