Dear Chris, sounds exciting. Who is the sponsor of this grand project? greetings from Berlin mmp
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:45:57 -0000, chris macrae wrote: >Happy Xmas Open Spacers , friends > >I realize that some of you have already done stuff in schools before but >over the next 5 years (partly because my daughter is 7) I want to get to >an experiment which puts open space throughout a school from 6th grade >(or 12 years) up > >By which I mean that once a year the main parent, teacher, kid exchange >includes a one-day open space at each grade (6? Up) > >I am mapping back a personal model (21 years brewing >http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html ) for a future view of the >world where I believe a person will be most productive if they can >select much more than in the past their 10 greatest mentors at any time >(10 might be 5 or 12 but its of that order). I assume that historically >typically we start with mother and father as mentor, then add in another >family member or school teacher, and then it goes rather random unless >you have the luck of going off the academic track into sports or >creativity or happen to have a great family business (or something >geographically local) to go into that just accidentally matches your >talents. > >( If you have to have an academic track to this model I would suggest >Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's work on the way people enjoy learning and >accomplishing presence) > >I am pretty sure that with the miracle combination of open space and the >virtual matching life to deep learning that email provides, those who >earliest get more selection and open communal guidance from supportive >peers who are also selecting mentors will get in effect better schooling >for life's opportunities. If we could prolong childlike inquiry >patterns, I could buy more of that contextualization instead of standard >examinations too > >I realise that what I have written is only half-cooked as yet. But if >anyone would like to form an email ring and once we've worked out 'how >to do it' we will of course report back then please contact me > >(I do also intuit a few other experiences from 2003 >http://www.enterpriseforall.info - eg attending a wonderful open space >by Roma and Lin (supported by 2 banks NatWest and Royal Bank of >Scotland, and including feedback with UK Treasury) on urban regeneration >which point me to the same rationale of let's make sure we future-proof >part of the school curriculum in ways that the young (not just the lag >of the old) should have a vibrant voice in > >Over in Europe, there are hi falutin things like Europe Vision 2010 by >which our 25 countries are supposed to be as good as the world gets at >knowledge society and nurturing human/social capital's diversity; my >guess is open space schools as a wee catalytic experiment gives people >one of the best shots of achieving 2010 (of course I would delight in >hearing your idea of another catalytic concept, because we people do >need a few great chances to self-organise in my view...) > >Happy Xmas and Transparent New Year to all, Chris Macrae > >[email protected] (in spite of this address my daughter's in a >school in Maryland, US) > >www.valuetrue.com > >* >* >========================================================== >[email protected] >------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected], >Visit: > >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html Noch 4 Plätze zu vergeben zur 3. Lernwerkstatt für open space-BegleiterInnen vom 25. bis 28. Januar 2004 in Vlotho. Jetzt anmelden www.michaelmpannwitz.de/o_lernwerkstatt2004.htm Michael M Pannwitz, boscop Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany FON: +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX: +49 - 30-773 92 464 www.michaelMpannwitz.de www.openspace-landschaft.de * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
