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.