Towards new educational paradigms
Towards new educational paradigms

Summary/Abstract: All revolutions, be they scientific or social ones, are the results of changes of paradigms. And the advent of the concept of «sustainable development» in our societies is no different. Theradical adjustments that must be made regarding our ways of thinking and our «personalreasoning» are undeniable and they happen to have a direct influence on the educationalcurriculum. And it is all the more true when an education y related to it is institutionalized,as is the case in many countries. Highlighting these changes, understanding what it impliesfor the thought, as well as in terms of learning, opening new leads to deal with the complexitythat such an education must tackle – these are the goals of this article. Inspired mainly bythe results of several groundbreaking works lead by the Laboratory for Science Didacticsand Epistemology of the University of Geneva, these reflections take stock of our currentknowledge on the subject.

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