تأملي بر مفهوم دانش و آموزش در جامعه ي دانايي محور

Reflection on the concept of knowledge and education in the knowledge based society

The term "knowledge based society" has been used in our policy making processes. Careful consideration indicates that knowledge here refers to science and High- Tech in the current world. It means that other types of knowledge are ignored and even applied knowledge is solely sought in either explicit or practical forms. Criticizing this idea, the present paper identified two types of reduction; ^) reduction of various types of knowledge to experimental and technology-driven ones, and reduction of forms of knowledge to applied information while neglecting other implicit layers involved. Further, ethics has no room in a knowledge based society. Critical analysis of knowledge in such notion would result in some implications for teaching and learning processes. The current paper suggested some ways to go out of such crisis and asserts that the experimental and technology-driven knowledge should be accommodated in a wide-ranging realm of knowledge which is broad enough to embrace all other types of knowledge. Moreover, imaginative, social and moral dimensions of education should be particularly considered.