hmm, yes interesting, again I am struck by the fact that it is not the availability of information that is holding us back, but our difficulties in navigating organisation and implementation.
By the way, I think your choice of Rogers as a kind of meeting and collective departure point is wise and I interpret it as a kind of ‘orientating generalisation’ that lies close to the vision that aspirates you in this, the LOCUS process. Are you open to start formulating a kind of dna code, for what LOCUS intends to be, nothing cast in stone tablets or such like, but a kind of conceptual handle for us to use as a kind of landmark? I would like to see such formulation happen as collaboratively as possible, and gauging from what I’ve heard about what you have in mind – I imagine it will – if we accept that LOCUS will be a a Point of Learning.
squeakyG wrote:
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/index.html
Rogers’ main objective was ‘Learner Centeredness’, if my investigations into contemporary emerging thinking has suggested anything, it is a move towards ‘Learning centeredness’, I think learning in its truest sense is an open ended <a xhref=” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_%28system_theory%29″>Open system</a>. Say we codify learning as the primary focus and fundamental objective and governing principle of LOCUS.
Which I think suggests a “what’s next?” question around what we understand and believe ‘learning’ to be.
” Learning is sense making that enables manifestation of purpose.
Education is the conscious attempt to promote learning in others. The primary function of “teaching” is to create a safe, viable, productive learning environment. Management of the total learning environment to promote enhance and motivate learning is a paradigm shift from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning.”
(above quote from Wikipedia again)
I could gurgle supporting theory and citations indefinitely but instead I would like to just express my hope that we are engaging with something that looks at learning, and by implication ‘education’ not as something like a machine or factory, but instead as a collaborative endeavour. A pursuit of Co-creative Mutual Development.
Am simply excited by the fact that the ‘new’ parents are more pro-active about educating their children in a child-friendly environment-one where children are treated with compassion and love.
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
– Stanley Kubrick