The Role of Social Pedagogy in Adapting to the Values of the Biosphere Worldview

Abstract

Although there is a great number of discussions in the world arena concerning interconnection of changes in education and the strategy for the development of modern civilization, as well as documents acceded by the variety of UN Conferences in regard to environment and development, there haven’t been any significant changes in the worldview and practice so far.On the contrary, the acceleration of the expansion of the technosphere and thereto related degradation of biosphere life are in evidence. This implies that attempts to solve global problems of our time based solely on the understanding of objective laws of social development are unsuccessful. In our opinion, the development of measures to reform modern education should take into account the interaction of three factors: technogenic society, technosphere and transformed biosphere. The consequences of global change-over of life connected with the spontaneous formation of the techno-noosphere should also be realized. Such change requires new mechanisms for socialization of the younger generation, which are able to allow not only adapting to the changed environment, but also correcting mistakes in the social development as a whole. In this context it should be realized that traditional pedagogy is unable to get radically the things done. Therefore, mainstreaming of social pedagogy into the educational process is of great necessity. In our opinion, it is socialization based on biosphere mentality and mindsets expanding the scope of the ecological worldview that can take all the transformational processes in the society, nature and a human being into consideration and work properly. With a foundation of social pedagogy and biosphere mentality and mindsets it is possible to propose a set of measures aimed at humane correction of modern educational systems in order to increase their effectiveness in the fight for saving of biosphere life.