Chris, Please keep me in the loop. I have many questions to ask you but I am traveling and too busy with the holidays until next week. What you have written about the power of children self-selecting their mentors is such an important key - I have been working on just this for several years, designing ost and similar events and facilitating with many hundreds of youth, sometimes with their teachers & parents. My colleagues and I have developed the design for a self-organizing mentoring village as an educational model, & we are deep in the next phase of design this winter for application in spring with teenagers who are in the foster-care system, and also with school groups. I'll be in touch with you directly next week.
Cheers! Chris Weaver Swannanoa, North Carolina, USA Quoting chris macrae <[email protected]>: > 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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