Luhmann and Biology
Mark William Johnson,
Improvisation Blog,
Aug 09, 2020
This is the very tip of a large domain of discourse on the nature of learning and communications. It starts out as an apparently abstruse discussion of Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory. But in the space of a few paragraphs it gets to a very practical point: "How should our education policy progress if it turns out that (as we suspect) the history environmental conditions are inseparable from individual development. Poverty, austerity, unemployment, stress, etc will all contribute to developmental problems - an uneven playing field which serves nobody well." This is the sort of question I ask as well, and while my own thinking doesn't have the same basis or grounding in autopoietic theory, I am sympathic with its expression. More work studying people like Luhmann, Loet Leydesdorff and Yuk Hui would no doubt be productive and fruitful - but ah! where is the time? See also: Taking stock of epigenetics and universities (highlights). Image: Vidal.
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