Ars docendi in Anthropocene : A Meditation upon the Principles of Comenius's "Theological Pedagogy" following the Interpretation of Radim Palouš
Abstract
We live in a strange world, in which ars docendi, the art of education, has an extremely difficult task. Not only it has to cope with the rapid development and keep up with the great acceleration of all planetary processes, not only it has to reflect upon all these changes and attempt at incorporating them into its contents and methods - but also, much more regrettably, it must fight today for its mere survival.
What should ars docendi do to survive? Or, what principles should it follow to fit the world of tomorrow? Does it have a chance against the powers that are threatening it? And how does it have to change? The paper aims at offering a meditation upon the acute questions, tracing loosely the thought of Johannes Amos Comenius as interpreted in the works of a famous Czech scholar and a political dissident Radim Palouš.