{"id":492,"date":"2019-10-15T07:07:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T09:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/?p=492"},"modified":"2019-11-07T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:58:45","slug":"re-designing-the-landscape-of-critical-reasoning-and-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/en\/re-designing-the-landscape-of-critical-reasoning-and-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-designing the landscape of critical reasoning and flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Prof. Luiz Oosterbeek<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One word seems to characterize the first\nquarter of the 21st century: disruption. In all domains, from global\nenvironmental acceleration to growing territorial disputes, moving through the\nabsence of a stable currency exchange mechanism, uncertainty in the labour\nmarket, fading out of educational services and traditional teaching and\nlearning methods, cultural tensions, climatic changes requiring disputed\nadaptations, migrations, raising of social inequality, geostrategic\nre-alignments, questioning of all models derived from the previous two\ncenturies, economic disparate interests and global political unrest and\nconflictual trends. While mediatic discourse tends to oscillate between\ncatastrophic and enthusiastic expectations in face of the new digital\nrevolution and artificial intelligence, often approached as external entities\ninvading the human sphere, this global depression context is requiring a new\nfundamental and strategic understanding, based on the informed and critical\ncapacity of citizens, so that adaptations may become the result of convergent\nefforts anchored in cultural diversity. A lengthy disruption, as the current\none, provides only one certain outcome for the future: it will be uncertain\nand, likely, quite different from whatever one may imagine. This is why society\nrequires not mere solutions for present problems, even if these are needed too,\nbut a strategy that may focus on the nature of the processes of social\ntransformations and adaptation, and not as much on targets for a future we\ncannot clearly foresee. We know, based on the assessment of past disruptive\nphenomena, from the dawn of agriculture to the outcomes of the previous\ndepressions in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, that any future will\nencompass the re-organization of territories and of their populations. Doing\nthis in peace is, hence, the biggest challenge of the century. Understanding\nand organizing clusters of knowledge and identity within the territories is\ncertainly crucial in this context, and for that one needs mapping of those\nclusters. In a society where diversity tends to refuse doing this around\npolitical, economic or religious entities, themselves affected by disruptive\nprocesses, one needs to turn to basic units of knowledge that may serve the\npurpose of bringing together potentially different and even conflicting groups\nand interests. This is, more than ever before, the key role of libraries, not\nonly providing access to information and culture, but making full use of\ndigital technologies while explaining there is no substitute for tangible\nmaterials, such as books, if one wishes to be more than a consumer and to be\nable to have an effective saying in his or her own future. While formal spaces\nof education and industry tend to be conservative and grounded on past\nexperiences, libraries are storing knowledge and may encourage experimentation,\nwhich enhances critical reasoning and favours the building of flexible,\nadaptive, individual profiles. Not only central libraries, but any other\nlibraries, have the responsibility to become the core component, with the\neducation system, of integrated and sustainable territorial development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Luiz Oosterbeek One word seems to characterize the first quarter of the 21st century: disruption. In all domains, from global environmental acceleration to growing territorial disputes, moving through the absence of a stable currency exchange mechanism, uncertainty in the labour market, fading out of educational services and traditional teaching and learning methods, cultural tensions,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/lnb100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}