From Individual to Social Cognition: Piaget, Jung, and Commons

Abstract

There is no individual cognition. All cognition is always “social cognition.” Individuals who do not participate in a community of “humans” are not able to humanize. This article, which will be presented in virtual form, sets out the conditions for the school of the future, a school with a heart. The research is based not only throughout a literature research about each one of the ingredients used to better understand student–teacher relationship, mainly concerning the question of the role of education in the construction of the subject, but also on the personal experience of the author. The concept of education as a “Commons” will be explored in a dialogue with theorists such as Jung, Piaget, Rubem Alves, and Paulo Freire. Design has always been present in human evolution, not only in making tools but, mainly, in producing men themselves as a culture byproduct. Nowadays Design Thinking is an approach for innovation in education. At the end the author will propose a new concept for the “school of the future,” a place fulfilled by teachers in passion for their doings and enchanted students, both sharing a flow state experience.