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Invitation to join LOCUS development group and/or mailing lists
Calling parents, teachers, and other interested people
…to be part of a reading, research, discussion and ultimately development and planning group working towards creating a wonderful new learner-oriented ‘school’, primarily/initially for kids, in JHB, Gauteng, South Africa!
LOCUS is an acronym for Learner Oriented CampUS. In order to be truly learner-oriented and to foster a healthy internal locus of control for the children who attend, the LOCUS will be designed in harmony with most complete understanding of children’s rights, desires and needs we can possibly come to.
Some of you may be more interested in using the group to inform yourselves in order to improve or interact with existing schools, others, like myself, more interested in starting something new from scratch. All that is great: but if you are really very happy with the schooling options currently available in Gauteng then this group is not for you. If you are not sure, want to get some idea of what we may head for, or just want to get inspired, check out www.LivingSchool.org ; www.summerhillschool.co.uk ; www.CircleSchool.org You may also want to read Steven Harrison’s ‘The Happy Child’; Carl Roger’s chapters on education in ‘Becoming a Person’; A.S. Neill’s ‘Summerhill, etc. The idea is to do our own thing, but to draw on lessons and ideas from sources such as these.
Mailing List
To join the mailing list in order to stay informed without coming to meetings at this point, please send an email to: locus-subscribe@pixelplexus.co.za We PROMISE we will not give this info out to others or use it for any other purpose ourselves.
Joining the Meeting Group
If you live in Gauteng you may choose to join the once-a-month in-person meeting group (view schedule). In between meetings we each go off to do reading or checking out or thinking on our own, in the line of each individual’s interest, to bring back to the next monthly meeting. Each meeting comprises some feedback and/or presentations to the whole group on what some members have discovered, followed by discussion. It is envisioned that this initial research/reading/discussion group will meet until June 2006, at which point it will become a design and planning (including fund-sourcing) group. The aim is to have some experimental pilot ‘classes’ running by June 2007, and ASAP thereafter to get underway with the creation of the full LOCUS – which may have another name by then!
To join the meeting group please email your contact details as well as the area where you live to: locus-meet@pixelplexus.co.za We PROMISE we will not give this info out to others or use it for any other purpose ourselves.
LOCUS Online Discussion & Resources
Please view the LOCUS Category, the Discussion sub-category (as also found in the buttons on the left hand side of pages). Clicking on an entry’s title will open that entry in full including a form allowing you to leave comments. Alternatively clicking on the link that says how many – if any – comments an entry has will take you straight to a form where you can comment on that entry.