Kathryn: Hiya from one unschooling parent to another. I've written a paper on the notion of freedom shock in Open Space based on John Taylor Gatto's seven principles. It's here: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/papers and it's called "Open Space Technology and the legacy of education."
I also stumbled on a great set of links today on unlearning, featuring papers from the likes of our own Toke Mueller, Meg Wheatley and others at http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/unlearning_reflections.htm Enjoy. Chris On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:16:25 -0800, Kathryn Major <kma...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > There is so much about OST that feels like homeschooling to me. :-) My > daughter is almost 15 and we've been homeschooling a few years now, and we > are moving further away from the traditional schooling approach every day, > even though we didn't start as unschoolers. > > Public schooling *was* designed to fill the need for workers who perform in > a military and industrial society without asking questions. See > www.johntaylorgatto.com . John is developing a documentary on this very > topic. I've seen his preliminary material and it's fascinating. It's just > one more reason that OST makes sense to me. > > Kathryn > > Kathleen Pichola <kap...@juno.com> wrote: > I think public schools have a similar mind set to the > corporate world., plan, plan,, plan. It feels fear based to me. We > can't let kids have down time for fear of what they would do, get out of > control? > * * ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, > unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about > OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist -- ------------------------- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
