BULETIN ğTIIN IFIC - Universitatea George Bacovia

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Liviu DRUGU, Toader GHERASIM, Camelia Mihaela CMECIU
to curricular reform, changing the contents of the former disciplines into a continuous field
of knowledge, and taking into account the real needs of the labour market. We reached the
conclusion that both curricular reform and the labour market’s demands, respectively, are
well acknowledged by both education reformers and business 5 . We try to make a practical
link between these two levels of reality, by redefining education and business processes
as a continuous one.
This transition process is meant as a continuous interaction of three dimensions:
transdisciplinary education, transdevelopment and transformation economy 6 , represented
by three interconnected circles (FIG.1). In other words, these three dimensions could be
translated as (business) education, education policy and business (FIG.2).
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This transdisciplinary approach is a postmodern, holistic and integrative model, which
is accepted and applied more and more frequently all over the world. The general human
thinking and acting equation is as follows:
H = f (E, M, E/M)
Where:
• H stands for human beings viewed simultaneously and continuously as individuals
(micro-level), social groups/societies (macro-level) and mankind (global or mondo level)
• E stands for any human ends proposed and accepted by the vector resulting from
calculating the “parallelogram of forces” between individuals, societies and mankind ends
in function of the real dimensions of the means they have. E is studied by a classical
discipline called politics.
• M stands for any means (be they viewed as substance, energy or information) that
are created, collected, combined and consumed for attaining the proposed and/or
accepted ends at the three levels of human realities (micro, macro, mondo). M is studied
by the (neo) classical discipline called economics.
• E/M ratio stands for the permanent process of comparing ends to means and
means to ends and then matching them. The name of this ratio could be “to adequate” 7 (of
means to ends and of ends to means) or “ad equation”. E/M ratio is studied by the
classical discipline called ethics, which includes and transcends politics and economics.
EMMY is a transition from dialectics to trialectics, from modernity to postmodernity,
from the study of disciplines to the transdisciplinary approach. Its main attributes are
holism, integrism, triadicity, and simultaneous and continuous thinking. The logic of EMMY
is based on triadicity and on abduction logic. In this model, humanistic disciplines could be
concentrated in order to offer the student a holistic picture of the human being. Finally, the
result could be a real and complete anthropology.
The complete dimension of all our concepts (theoretical aspect) and realities
(practical aspect) is a triadic one. In order to use EMMY in a pragmatic way, it is necessary
to know seven fundamental triads that may explain human existence, its knowledge
cultural studies, history of mind, gnoseology, epistemology, logic, semiotics, communicology, etc are also
intricated in EMMY. Any future suggestions, proposal for collaboration and joint research are very welcome.
5 We do not agree with the almost general view that business means only “for profit” financial activities. On
the contrary, we view business as a permanent human thinking and action searching for certain result
(ends).
6 “If you charge for the benefit, customers (or "guests") receive as a result of spending that time, you are in
the transformation business”. Ole Faarborg, A Case of Cooperation: The Experience Economy and Flexibility
in Education – Towards a Transformation Economy.
7 We use the term “to adequate” not in the meaning “Barely satisfactory or sufficient”, but rather in the
meaning “meeting the requirements especially of a task” (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/adequate).