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The rarely explained term is nebulous at best, and can mean many things – negative and positive – to different groups of people.
‘Permacrisis’: the Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal, instantly bringing 12% of global trade to a stop.
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Crises are no longer something to fix but situations to manage.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attends a climate strike outside the Swedish parliament, December 20 2019.
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Instead of Tudors and Churchill, history students need to learn how civilisation has arrived at the point of no return.
Proposing ‘progress studies’ as a new academic field of study ignores history.
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A recent article in The Atlantic called for a “new science of progress” - this is dangerous and ignores the academic study of the history of human development.
Over the last hundred years, there have been at least three major waves of ‘progressive’ education in Ontario. Here, Premier Doug Ford with Finance Minister Vic Fedeli after presenting the 2019 budget at the legislature on April 11, 2019.
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The Progressive Conservative government’s call to modernize education invokes long-standing rhetoric about progressive education in paradoxical ways.
Is the observation that the standard of living stagnated until 1820 reliable?
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Despite the technological advances that humanity has known for millennia, the standard of living did not begin to rise until around 1800.
‘Man Combating Ignorance’ – what’s science’s role?
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There’s no shortage of problems facing humanity. Science’s role in how to tackle them has long been debated – including memorably by two of the 20th century’s greatest literary figures.