Epharmology: a Plea for a New Science and a New Education Paradigm

Amir Muzur  - Prethodno priopćenje
Iva Rinčić
Jiwon Shim
Sunyong Byun

Efarmologija: pledoaje za novu znanost i novu paradigmu obrazovanja

Abstract
Technological development is characterised by a series of related phenomena – digitalisation, informatisation, robotisation, and globalisation – resulting in continuous and essential adaptations of human brain and behaviour. These adaptations have awaken the interest of numerous disciplines, but their systematic study, actually, is missing. In the present paper, along with the list of several adaptation fields and examples, the establishing of a new science is suggested – epharmology (from the Greek epharmozein = to adapt) which might be able to comprehensively approach the gathering and analysis of data from various observations and sources and, based on discerning between wishful and unwishful adaptations, which could exert influence upon legislation and education reform.

Sažetak
Tehnološki razvitak karakterizira niz povezanih fenomena – digitalizacija, informatizacija, robotizacija i globalizacija – koji rezultiraju stalnim i bitnim prilagodbama ljudskog mozga i ponašanja. Ove prilagodbe bude interes brojnih disciplina, ali njihovo sustavno proučavanje, zapravo, izostaje. U ovome članku se, uz navođenje mnogih područja i primjera prilagodbi, sugerira ustrojavanje nove znanosti – efarmologije (od grč. epharmozein = prilagođavati se) koja bi na sveobuhvatan način pristupila prikupljanju i obradi podataka iz raznih opservacija i studija te temeljem razlučivanja poželjnih od nepoželjnih adaptacija mogla utjecati na zakonodavstvo i reformu obrazovanja.