02Dec'25
The Seven Necessary Skills for the Education of the Future
Speaker: Isabel Baltazar, 2 December 2025 - 1:00 p.m. (PT) / 10:00 a.m. (BR)
This reflection on Edgar Morin's The Seven Necessary Skills for the Education of the Future offers a critical and innovative look at the contemporary challenges of teaching. It addresses the urgent need to train teachers capable of dealing with complexity, promoting learning that integrates scientific, ethical, cultural and social knowledge. It reflects on the continuing professional development of teachers, which is essential in a rapidly changing world, and on the need to cultivate a humanism that values the human condition, planetary consciousness and the ability to live with others. Based on seven areas of knowledge — confronting the blindness of knowledge, teaching the human condition, understanding earthly identity, dealing with uncertainty, promoting understanding, ethics and citizenship — it discusses the central role of the teacher as a mediator, inspirer and builder of a more just and supportive future.