Dear Michael & OS As I see :its a continuous project, where anyone opens the space wherever we can
In the UK I have some experience in getting school governors to open up Schools to emotional literacy surveys as run by www.antidote.org.uk - do say if anyone wants to know more on this excellent idea tank on bringing back self-organising to schools; clearly one needs permission at a school level of teachers and some parents/governors We need (I think) to collate similar experiences - in particular do we have any examples of continuity of open spaces in a school already, or have they all been one-offs? (why didnt they sprout naturally?) also let's think which other open space topics already in repertoire like community regeneration are potentially natural ones for school open space conversations? Who else may be interested in joining in? For example, I know quite a few people who feel that what kids need to learn for the future is changing faster than school curricula at least in particular practice areas; does anyone else? Can we link these people? chris macrae, [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pannwitz, Michael M Sent: 22 December 2003 12:07 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Open Spacing Schools & an Xmas Competition in catalysts of self-organising 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. 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