From crisis to challenges: Change, transformation, evolution

Abstract

This research work draws on a reflection about the issue of the crisis. Current crisis is something that exists and that is continuously changing—i.e. it has already changed the entire world, as far as conditions of lives are concerned.
This deep crisis affects moral and spiritual values and it involves an
increasingly low sense of human community. However, it ought to be understood as a valuable moment which shakes us and make us face questions about the real conditions of life within a society. Therefore, crisis ought to be meant as an opportunity to reconsider the sense of education, together with a responsible attitude towards the availability of tasks that require personal involvement and individual solutions.
This challenge is important because of its common character: it triggers the quest for success when trying to accomplish educational practices in a complex environment. Pedagogy—as a science dedicated to the study of education, training and overall formation of the human being—can help mankind to stir through this deep crisis. Nowadays, more than ever, pedagogy provides
answers to the needs of people who live in a very complex society. It does so by thanks to interpretation and knowledge achieved through the means of education and training. The needs it satisfies are: the necessity of individual education and the construction of new and better existential paths.