English Literature Education and Cybernetics

Abstract

Cybernetics, particularly second-generation cybernetics, may provide the framework for thinking and learning necessary for contemporaries living in a hyperconnected era. The educational content and teaching methods of English language and literature need to be redesigned so that students can be more familiar with the products of modern science, including AI and virtual reality. In addition, English language and literature classes should demonstrate an inclusive and receptive attitude to the common languages of science, mathematics, and machine language as well as their achievements. The core competencies in the field currently classified as humanities need to be cultivated intensively so that graduates can contribute to social organization and live a meaningful life by providing values that can be shared with engineering and business students. English language and literature education needs to reinforce the core competencies of humanities in line with modern industrial structures. It seems possible to partially consider a convergent approach with cybernetics and related management theories with aesthetic content in classes. Expanding aesthetic sensibility education into practical disciplines such as engineering and business management can also be meaningful work.