BULETIN ğTIIN IFIC - Universitatea George Bacovia

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Liviu DRUGU, Toader GHERASIM, Camelia Mihaela CMECIU
Mainly the modern education process was based on induction and deduction, but the
post/transmodern one adds abduction to the previous ones. The triadic thinking is another
postmodern tool of analyzing reality by shaping our minds in order to render the more and
more complex levels of reality. Similarly, the holistic, systemic and poststucturalist thinking
are very useful analytical tools in communication. We are making here a plea for using
these tools in order to prepare future graduates for transformation economy.
EMMY is such a tool not only easy to use, but very useful in a lot of new social
contexts by applying the seven fundamental triads. One of the characteristics of the seven
triads is the very strong accent laid on the third element, such as in the triadic structure of
time (past-present-future), the focus is on future, in the spatial triadic structure (micromacro-mondo)
the focus is on the mondo, and in the existential triadic structure
(substance, energy, information), the accent is put on information and so on. This disequilibrated
accent is put on the third element/part of the triad just because the modern
education process dis-equilibrated the triad by putting the accent on the first or, more
recently, on the second one. So, our dis-equilibrated accent on the third element is meant
to make a real equilibrium among the three parts (1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1).
To conclude these last third dimensions of the triadic structures are: future, mondo/ global
dimension, information, ethic, ethics/ management, end/means, Father (in the Holy Trinity).
These third elements are quite consonant with Stefan Lupascu’s logic of the included
third. This kind of logic is one of the three constituent parts of transdisciplinarity in Basarab
Nicolesco’s vision. That is why the education process should adapt its methods and
purposes to the new demands of a very complex and dynamic labour market. The
complexity is another constituent part of transdiscplinarity which argues the necessity to
overcome the disciplinarity as a level of reality specific to modern times.
As a concrete step in making a practical reform of the (higher) education, the new
transdisciplinary approach is fundamental. There are already many studies on these
concrete steps 12 . In this context, we propose to education policy representatives, university
representatives and business representatives to consider the necessity of making a
common plea meant to coordinate the efforts of implementing transdisciplinary thinking in
universities, transdevelopment thinking in education policy and transformation economy in
business activity. This is a concrete way of shaping new forms of practical links between
the three above mentioned fields. We do consider that it could be of real help in this
respect if the board of this conference would invite those representatives to analyze and to
decide whether this proposal should be accepted and implemented as soon as possible.
Also, the representative of Knowledge Science Foundation should transmit this proposal to
the headquarters. Several times one of the authors has tried to contact the Joint Research
Center from Ispra, Italy an organization created as a stimulus to grow a European
Research Area, under the auspices of the European Commission, and forwarded a similar
proposal but no answer was given. More than that, we think that the Directorate-General
for Education and Culture should be more involved in this kind of reforms.
Our attempt was/is highly motivated by the above mentioned lack of dialogue
between organizations, especially created for implementing new methods in education and
research. Our proposal is to transform this kind of scientific meetings as the First SPACE
Conference into effective communication tools for shaping the new practical roles of higher
education and research.
12 Bertea, Mircea, Florescu, Maria, Isac, Ionu, Vasiu, Adrian, Vasiu, Angela: Transdisciplinary Educational
Achievements In Romania http://www.history-cluj.ro/SU/cercet/IsacIonut/Isac%20-%20Transdisciplinary%20
Educational % 20Achievements.htm.
There is, as well, a Transdisciplinary Sustainability Analysis, Modeling and Assessment" Hub (TSAMA), a
web network – promoted by University of Jahannesburg – which actively promotes transdisciplinarity and
sustainable development.