Category Archives: 7: LOCUS

Learner Orientated CampUS – Collaboration and Development documents and discourse. (Introduction to LOCUS)

A Good Teacher

By Anne-Marie | Published: 20 January 2006
A good teacher should love the people she will be teaching – be they adults or children. She should have knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject she will be teaching. She should be lateral thinking, flexible, warm and able to guide without being intrusive. A good teacher should be encouraging to the more advanced [...]
Also posted in Discussion, Theory & Discourse | Leave a comment

LOCUS Principles and Elements

By Je'anna | Published: 20 January 2006
(‘Design’ refers to the modus operandi and ‘curriculum’of the LOCUS as much as to the physical spaces it will occupy.) The final LOCUS design must take into account that : (To save time and space please only agree silently. Submit comments of only debate, requests for clarification, suggestions for other items for inclusion on this [...]
Also posted in Discussion | Leave a comment

LOCUS Meeting Dates

By Je'anna | Published: 20 January 2006
February 22nd when we will brainstorm ‘the best and worst of our own school experiences’ in order to inform what we do and don’t want the LOCUS to be. March 29th when the suggestion is that we have input from Lola on the Waldorf model and input from Nicky and Anne-Marie on the Montessori approach. [...]
Also posted in Meetings | Leave a comment

List of Theorists to Read

By Je'anna | Published: 20 January 2006
John Dewey John Holt Bonnie Benard Steven Harrison Carl Rogers A.S. Neill (LOCUS members are invited to add to this list by leaving comments here)
Also posted in Discussion, Old All | Leave a comment

List of Possible Speakers

By Je'anna | Published: 20 January 2006
Ian Moll on early childhood development Sr.Dipty of the Brahma Kumari on soul consciousness and values in children’s education Halle Berman on creativity Graham Codrington on youth issues (LOCUS members are invited to add to this list by leaving comments here)
Also posted in Discussion | Leave a comment

Possible Initiatives to Explore and Learn from

By Je'anna | Published: 20 January 2006
The Southern Cross school in Hoedspruit Taizé Gezonheid – the Patch Adams approach The Living School in Colorado St Benedict Pre-primary in Bedfordview And a school in Swellendam, which Rose will follow up on. (LOCUS members are invited to add to this list by leaving comments here)
Also posted in Discussion | Leave a comment

LOCUS meeting 2

By André SC | Published: 3 January 2006
LOCUS second discussion group meeting : Weds 11th Jan at 8pm sharp, to finish by 9.30pm
Also posted in Meetings | Leave a comment

contemplating LOCUS

By André SC | Published: 13 November 2005
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.
Also posted in 9: Backend, Contemplations, Old All | 2 Comments

axis shining out space

By André SC | Published: 24 April 2003
This great orbit, its folly and spin the dream and surrounding mind is an axis shining out space where we shadows end and begin.
Also posted in 5: Abstract, 8: Clients & Associates, 9: Backend, Contemplations, Old All, Poetry Prose Etc. | Leave a comment