Nordic Journal of Literacy Research – Some Prospects and Challenges

Abstract

Education in our society is increasingly oriented towards competition and anxious impatience with gaining measurable outcomes in the short term. Similar to the global economy, there is little trust and patience regarding long-term perspectives and features surrounding the maximum profit in the shortest possible time. These mechanisms are working their destructive powers on our natural resources and on possibilities for people to make meaningful lives. By invading the school systems all over the world this short-sighted view also threatens to undermine the possibility for people of the future to critically examine and resist a society where human beings are but functions in a fully automatized society.