Challenges and Transformation of Education for 21st Century Schools

This book will provoke cognitive dissonance and intellectual unease in the reader, which will encourage them to try to update and internalize some of the ‘theories inside their heads,’ which have been embedded there since their school years. For teachers and researchers to internalize such encouragements permanently, certain conditions and encouraging environments need to be created and accompanied by new experiences of alternative practices, which are rare today. Creating conditions for gaining this kind of experience in teaching and research is politics’ primary function and fundamental mission in education research and development. Such politics takes us back to the beginning of human civilization, philosophy, rhetoric, paradigmatic changes and our society. And now, we face real challenges and needs for transformations of education. In this book, various education experts expose the guidelines for developing education and educational sciences in the future society in Society 5.0. The text is divided into three parts, each containing multiple chapters that discuss various aspects of contemporary society, education paradigms, and knowledge transfer strategies.