ABSTRACT
This commentary chapter addresses the theme for Section C, namely, social change. The authors in Section C identify technological innovation, migration, and the climate emergency as aspects of social change that are transforming research on the complex and multifaceted aspects of fluid and open-ended learning. This commentary explores the implications of substituting “social crises” for “social change” in how research on learning is framed and conducted. The term social change doesn’t capture the cascading ongoing crises and wicked problems that are beyond our current affective and cognitive capacities to address. A renewed research agenda is proposed that is concerned with the collective processes of social critique, collaboration across differences, formation of coalitions, and participation with others in shaping transformative social policies and practices.
