Inżynieria memetyczna w szkole. W stronę dydaktyki ewolucyjnej

Abstract

Creating and maintaining variety of cultural components is very important for each and every generation. This variety secures our safety. Nowadays it does not feel comprehensive to understand the cultural transmission processes without including the memetic perspective. It seems advantageous to consider something along the lines of “memetic engineering” in schools, which we called “evolutionary teaching”. We believe that in order to understand what a school is it is important to understand three basic elements. First, the very nature of the evolutionary process. Second, the importance of the biological background for the human brain and mind, where the latter depends on the former. Third, the memetic perspective, where strategies for survival are chosen by the memes based on certain characteristics of the school’s environment. Memetic variety guarantees that in the age of fast-changing reality we will never encounter unsolvable problems due to the lack of certain memetic “bricks”, which are necessary to build essential competences.