This chapter explores essential questions of the role of education in society and how it must change as humanity assumes control and responsibility for many of the Earth′s systems. The chapter begins with an analysis of foundational concepts of education′s purpose and how and when its purpose as a societal construct was clear. Looking forward, humanity′s fate in the twenty-first century is tied together or commonly held. Sustainable well-being, complexity and systems change in education, and how teaching and learning should be reconfigured for an era of uncertainty are all examined as areas for redesign of teaching, learning and education systems themselves. The chapter concludes with the assertion that for a post-Enlightenment, deeply interconnected age marked by uncertainty and transformational technology, education′s purpose is to enable societies to succeed at a new frontier where the taxonomies of today are limiting progress.
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