Structured Data Facilitate Learning Design for Energetic Transition

For the immense but necessary task of global climate protection, avenues for action should be designed to consider the intrinsically autopoietic and self-guided behaviour of global power politics. Thus, pragmatic approaches may provide solutions and educational strategies have to prepare global society. This article proposes a “design of social processes” as a lasting global educational strategy that may enhance the societal and institutional transition to a non-fossil future, as called for by the recent Paris climate conference. In a path-dependent world, self-adaptive learning is needed, given the wide distribution of learners' profiles – and their interests. Sound education is identified as the genesis of structures that lead to changes in action. Three principles for such a design of social processes are proposed: rhythmisation, multi-perspectivism, and underdeterminism, as found in game play.