By Teresa Ferrer, Curriculum Coordinator
At St. Peter’s School, we understand the world as flexible, multi-directional, non-local, connected, interactive and uncertain. Understanding reality as a system and embracing the idea of a combined impact between the external environment and the subjects and objects in it, lead us to introduce a quantum thinking mode as a new framework for our early sections. Our main goal is to install in young learners the idea that the world is a dynamic system, that everything is interrelated, that different viewpoints enhance comprehension and can coexist in harmony and that the human future is full of possibilities.
Classical thinking models based on Newtonian mechanics may lead us to look at our environment and society in a non-flexible disconnected way. This is a powerful reason behind our interest in drawing our students near to a more interrelated vision of the world and societies.
Human societies are ever-changing complex systems in a multi-level sense: interactions between individuals, between individuals and groups and between groups. Even more, we are starting to interact with AI’s, decentralised systems and other types of technologies where human reasoning does not always follow a rational structured path.
Having diversified thinking in an era of exponential relations between humans, machines and nature will provide our students with a new thinking paradigm that is better aligned with their future needs.
Our students as architects of the future
Causality and linear thinking do not align well when solving complex problems. The nature of events is not predictable, therefore if we want our students to make sense of the future from an international identity point of view we should give them the appropriate lens to understand nature as chaotic, complex, and unpredictable.
