Eco-Technological Literacy for Resiliency

  • Leo Elshof
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Abstract

In terms of education, Rifkin suggests that “our ideas about education invariably flow from our perception of reality and our conception of nature—especially our assumptions about human nature and the meaning of the human journey. Those assumptions become institutionalized in our education process. What we really teach, at any given time, is the consciousness of an era” (2011, p. 234).

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Technological Education United Nations Development Programme Technological Literacy Moral Blindness Human Development Index Country 
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