What is education for in the polycrisis?
FORUM - Print ISSN 1474-7685 - Online ISSN 2047-7171
Volume 67 Number 3 (2025)
What is education for in the polycrisis?
Peter Moss pages 10‑20
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2025.67.3.02
Abstract
The article argues that the purposes of education, not confined only to schooling, must be relevant to the conditions of the times, which can be summed up as a polycrisis, a combination of complex, interconnected and existential crises that are more than the sum of their parts. Yet despite the warning provided by the recent pandemic, there is still an absence of democratic discussion about the purposes of education, which under neoliberalism have been reduced primarily to a narrow economic rationale. The article considers some of the implications of the polycrisis for education, and concludes with the need to rethink
To cite this article
Peter Moss (2025) What is education for in the polycrisis?, FORUM, 67(3), 10-20 . https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2025.67.3.02