1. Educating in a post-truth and post-trust era: A challenge for the UWC movement

2. Educating in a post-truth and post-trust era: A challenge for the UWC movement
Topics
Post-truth and post-trust
Open & closed – the new political spectrum?
Populism
Somewheres & Anywheres
Loss of belief in:
democracy
progress
informal norms of public discourse
Impact of social media
THE CHALLENGE TO THE FUTURE UWC ALUMNI ELITE

3. Definition
"circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."

4. Example
“In this era of post-truth politics, it is easy to cherry-pick data and come to whatever conclusion you desire"

5. ‘the economic, social and cultural success of nations relates directly the trust that their people have in each other and in their institutions’

6. ‘strangers learned to trust one another when signing contracts, allowing them to do deals outside the circles of family, tribal or in-group kinship’

7. With the result that the US no longer figures in the 2017 list of the (19) ‘full democracies’ EIU

8. UWC
With the result that the US no longer figures in the 2017 list of the (19) ‘full democracies’ EIU

9. 1990s THE
END OF
Berlin Wall
Apartheid

10. 2010s THE START OF
new walls
new battles

11. Left Right

12. Trump signs executive order banning Syrian refugees from US 2017-01-27
Trudeau welcomes first batch of Syrian refugees at Toronto airport
Trump signs executive order banning Syrian refugees from US

14. Open Education for a Closing World

15. John Judis

16. ELITE THE REST It is NOT: Politics Leftwing Populism - Socialist
- Social democratic
- Liberal, or
- Progressive
Politics
Leftwing Populism
ELITE
THE REST

17. ELITE MAJORITY MINORITY It is NOT: Politics Rightwing Populism
Conservative (either authoritarian or in defence of the business classes)
Politics
Rightwing Populism
ELITE
MAJORITY
MINORITY

19. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.
Based on its scores on a range of indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: “full democracy”; “flawed democracy”; “hybrid regime”; and “authoritarian regime”. 

21. 2017: the global average score slides once more 
“In the 2017 Democracy Index the average global score fell from 5.52 in 2016 to 5.48 (on a scale of 0 to 10). Some 89 countries experienced a decline in their total score compared with 2016…” 

23. “The title of this year’s report refers to the popular revolt in 2016 against political elites who are perceived by many to be out of touch and failing to represent the interests of ordinary people…”
“A strong attachment to the post-war, liberal, democratic order makes it difficult for those on the losing side to come to terms with what happened in 2016”.

26. UWC education is grounded in a belief in progress

28. “Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory”
Franklin Pierce Adams ( )
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory”

29. Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Food
Sanitation
Life expectancy
Poverty
Violence
The environment
Literacy
Freedom
Equality
The next generation
Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

30. The Good Old Days ARE NOW!

31. Informal norms of public discourse
Treat your opponents like legitimate adversaries, not illegitimate enemies
You tell the truth as best you can
You don’t make naked appeals to bigotry

33. Impact of social media
“At the the dawn of the Internet, people hoped that free communication would lead to an epoch of peace, understanding and democratic communication. Instead, we’re seeing polarization, alternative information universes and the rise of autocracy”
”the social media platform actually buttresses authoritarian ends”.

34. Ole Petter Ottersen Rector, University of Oslo
Faced with the prospect of a post-factual society, universities have to re-establish a respect for objective truth and powerful arguments – through our educational programmes and through our public outreach. 
Ole Petter Ottersen Rector, University of Oslo

35. Ole Petter Ottersen Rector, University of Oslo
We have to create many more arenas for debate – arenas that are open and inclusive so as to give a voice to those who feel left behind too.
Universities should be trust-building as well as truth-seeking
Ole Petter Ottersen Rector, University of Oslo

36. Ole Petter Ottersen Rector, University of Oslo
In our age of turbulence these two words –
trust and truth – are inextricably intertwined.
University World News
Ole Petter Ottersen Rector, University of Oslo

39. Our graduates ?
Open Closed

40. Our graduates ?
Inclusive Exclusive

41. Lester B. Pearson Prime Minister of Canada
( )
Nobel Peace Prize 1957
'How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?’

43. Successful societies
Truth
Trust
Knowledge