Anthropology and Pedagogy Open to the Future

The third chapter allows a better understanding of the scientific, philosophical and political issues of education in the Anthropocene, and beyond, by embracing all disciplinary fields and all areas of human activities in interactions (notion of total anthropological fact) of complex relations at stake between the subject and the world. Within the landscape of higher education, a pedagogical innovation that works in this sense is studied in more detail: IFF Europe (Centre associated with the Catholic University of the West). The triptych subject-other-world articulated with existential self-training combines the anthropological, ethical and political dimensions in systemic and complex interactions. Through the praxeology of IFF Europe and other analyses of educational practices such as the competency-based approach promoted by the Ministry of Higher Education in France, it is highlighted how agency can be mobilised as a touchstone of self-training in the time of the Anthropocene. The chapter consists of two parts: (1) Total anthropological fact and pedagogical innovation: the case of IFF Europe; (2) Knowledge into action and existential training.