Freedom and Responsibility in Education 5.0

Abstract

This chapter attempts to address the issue of freedom-responsibility nexus in the era of Education 5.0, defining and establishing the rationale between freedom and responsibility and their resilience in the educational realm through reviewing relevant literature from various respects steering towards education and particularly Education 5.0. This chapter also discusses the space of freedom anticipated and the extent of responsibility it places. It also discusses the opportunities and challenges that freedom-responsibility nexus in the era of Education 5.0 is prone to offer. The intersection between freedom, responsibility and education is further demonstrated with reference to historical and philosophical perspectives, and through analyzing three relevant case studies from different contexts to recommend a three-pillar method for introducing the change into education. Bearing in mind the impact of conceptualizing and reconceptualizing the nexus across freedom, responsibility and education alongside the massive new possibilities Education 5.0 offers.