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The Gaian Paradigm Part 3 - Cooperative Life-Long Self-Learning

A kinship LIFE-LONG teaching logic

The probable for a new macro governance embedded in civil circle 9Paart 2) is only one example of the surfacing of spontaneous self-planned difficult networks. Another awarenessing example of self organization on the perimeter of mess is the surfacing of Cooperative kinship Life-Long Leaning interiors (CCL- LLCs).

Early American teachs were accurate disciplinary crecords in which students sat awkwardly at their desks in abject respect while dour trainers skilled them the three Rs by rote recall. It’s reason, at slightest during this century, has been to organize selfnel for an industrial society. It worked well. Laborers in American mills and verityories surpassed all others in bringing wealth to our people.

An increasing number of teachingal critics, like 1991 New York trainer of the year, John Taylor Gatto in Dumbing us Down, have decried the coaching scheme. They contend that it is the form of coaching that is beliefs the abuse coaching. The monopoly imperial teachs reaccurate the individual’s sincere curiosity and yearning to learn. They edify authoritarianism, self-repression, and accurate respect to the regulator. The trainer, under pedals set by the imperial and now the peopleal government, concludes what is to be scholarly. The regulator and the calendar conclude when and how long a teen can learn it. greatly of this review of coaching has been reflected in a arrive to the head, A country at stake.

Well before the present attacks on coaching and educating, John Dewey and other philosophers assailed this idea of teaching with their creeds of “learning by liability” and “teen crecorded teaching.” while the philosophy of teaching untouched the form didn’t. Twenty or more teenren are still gathered in one teach area, each one tiresome to do his or her own thing. The findings is that neither beliefs nor learning is promising. Many teachareas become crecords of muddle. culture is now at the perimeter of of mess, sour for a radical transformation.

The organization of the new learning scheme is fairly difference than the self-organization of area GROs into a overall Civil humanity. For the example we examined above, organization came from emotive from mess, a displanned conglomeration of displace new organiztional cells, through the borderland of the perimeter of mess into order. total Civil humanity, like democracy before it, is self- organizing itself where nothing, or little, subsisted before. For the learning scheme reorganization is episode, in part at slightest, from the stoppage and disintegration of a too strictly planned scheme.

One part of the reorganization of learning happening two decades ago when some families happening charming corrective actions one family at a time. It was called homecoaching. These actions grew in concert with Paul Goodman’s urging that teachs make more use of area facilities and issues, with Ivan Illich’s shaping book Decoaching humanity, and with John Holt’s Instead of culture (1976), and mounting lacking teaching (1977) on how teenren learn.

In the creation, only a link of decades ago, hometeachs were autonomous family units, each one backdrop it own curriculum, and providing its own utensils and navy. As homecoaching grew in the 1970s and 1980s practitioners began forming associations primarily to switch information and to confront imperial laws that imperfect their rights. There are now some 700 homecoaching associations in the United States. About 50 of these have a people- extensive constituency.

Most of the navy supplyd to hometeachers, like mounting lacking teaching, or Home culture push, are primarily communalations emphasizing switchs among hometeachers. Others like the Clonlara prepare Home-Based culture interior supply a by-packages help with curricula, tests, and diplomas for hometeachers. Still others are newsletters printed and exuntouched by hometeachers themselves. A few like Home prepareers security Organization help hometeachers with lawful and legislative matters. One or two have books, utensils and other important for loans to hometeachers. Some like ????? and Aerogram are communalations condemning the authoritarian, monopolistic imperial teach schemes and supporting alternative teachingal schemes.

densely associated with the home coaching transfer are a broad array of alternative teachs which are emotive in the track of teen-crecorded teaching. Jerry Mintz in his Handbook of Alternative culture lists 2500 Montessori teachs, 100 Waldorf teachs, and 60 Quaker teachs as well as the 700 hometeachs syllabuss. 9

In additions to these is a budding number of Folk teachs ornate after the Folk prepares of Denmark, “teachs-lacking bulwark,” “Open Universities” and learning crecords which do not drop inside the area of being substitutes for the K-12 governmental teachs. It is this later group of learning facilities with which this paper is awarenessed.

In the last two or three living area homecoaching networks have happening providing themselves with a new form of learning gathering institution. They don’t yet even have a total name. To onset groping them I will cvall call them “Cooperative kinship Life-Long erudition interiors (CCL-LLCs).” These area crecords are cooperatively owned and tenetled by the associate families they organize. They supply counseling, mentoring, utensils, facilities, workshops and module. They organize each in the area regardless of age or history learning. They use all aspects of the area as learning facilities. Libraries, YMCAs, churches, museums, area businesses, farms, government offices, the streets, and the parks are all part of the learning scheme.

As Gene Lehman put it in one of his Luno broadsheets “life long learning relies violently on daily life activities, innate and variend interactions among people, friend with scenery , and a current society which is abundant, diverse, profound, and cheaply accessible to all. Most importantly, a holistic handle to lifetime learning relies on developing some kind of face-to-face area of links and neighhbors who co-organize in order to stake the essendital burdens and delights of life.”10

In 1998 kinship erudition interiors became of governmental awareness when the Elementary and inferior culture Act committed $40 million to develop after- teach syllabuss. But this syllabus was imperfect to teach diaccurates, and administered by U.S. Department of culture. It’s goal was primarily to get the kids off the streets, fairly than to stimulate life-long or area learning. It was therefore directed more at cutback a crumbling coaching scheme than experimenting with new futuristic schemes of learning.

Cooperative kinship Life-Long erudition interiors may be one of the most shaping innovations of the history decade. They may be the seed for a innate fundamental change in the teaching/learning scheme of the imminent. kinship Life-Long erudition interiors are to a large degree an result of the briskly budding homecoaching transfer. It is conceivable that CLL-LLCs could completely return the imperial tenetled teachs.

Civil humanity and erudition

The transition to a kinship Life-Long erudition technique is greatly more than a change in teachingal practices. It is a transformation of the totality wits set of the worth of knowlperimeter and the worth of the self. “doctrine,” “educating,” and “coaching” entail that circle, or government, is acting on, tenetling, indoctrinating and forming some nebulous minor beings. It is an hierarchical scheme of tenet from the top down. It is inherent in the first time of democracy which accepted many of the belief of tenet from above, the divine right of kings and its transition to the divine right of government. It is in harmony with the loss worldview that the space, and the Earth, are parts of the franchise of being in which man is a half god tenetling the Earth from above, and all minor forms counting women, teenren, animals, plants and the Earth’s sincere property are but property for the use of man.

Every free word in”Cooperative,” “kinship,” “Life-Long,” “erudition,” and “technique” carries a different important connotation. “erudition” is not something a excellent being does to a minor one. erudition is an act of self-desire. It is a self- actuated course of creating skills, discovering knowlperimeter, and satisfying one’s own sincere curiosity. It is built on, and it edifyes, the inherent right and responsibility of every individual to set her is his own values. It honors the diversity of evolution. It is in harmony with the new Gaian worldview that everything is interdependent with everything moreover. It greetings the new understanding that each of us “belongs” likewise to Gaia.

“Belonging” in this perceive is greatly more that purely “being a associate of.” Belonging is the scientific verity that we are all interdependent schemes inside schemes, or holons wthin holons if you longing to use the schemes jargon. Each of us is a totality made up of slighter totalitys and imbedded in bigger totalitys. Gaia and the heavens are among the bigger totalitys of which each individual is a slighter totality. “Belonging” implies not only being a totality inside totalitys, but that we are business to down causation, we are business to sincere laws. “Belonging” to Gaia means belonging to the Earth and to one another. Belonging is an ethical proto-worth inherent in the New knowledge/shared paradigm. It says that each individual is an connected part and responsible for the wellbeing and well being of the family, the area, Gaia, and each of the bigger schemes of high he or she is a part. Inherent in this scientific idea of belonging is greatly of the lasting wisdom of the sages which have recognized that humanity cannot maintain to subsist on Earth lacking laws of conduct which emphasise our responsibility to and for one another.

This transition from “educating” to “learning” is being recognized by a extensive array of scholars. Management counselor Peter Drucker in his “stake Capitalist humanity” writes of a circle based on knowlperimeter. One in which all circle is an open life- long learning scheme in which every self can record any equal at any time. From the other end of the spectrum harmony scholar Elise Boulding arrives that a universal figure of the many “suppose a World lacking Weapons” workshops she has seized with people of all walks of life and all ages, was the foresight of a “areaist circle,” One in which communities were self-dependent and “erudition appears integrated into other area activities. … each is a student, and teaching is life long.” This theme of the “erudition kinship” is insincere integrated with the cyst of civil circle and all other aspects of the emerging Gaian Cultures.11 (1677 word on learning)

amount Ellis, of Rangely, ME retired early from his running life as a skill plan consultant in agencies such as the countryal knowledge Foundation, Unesco and The World reserve. For the last 30 living he has work voluntarily to promote the broad reach of gathering innovations that sanction people at the prairie roots and promote area self-trust. One of these is as broad Coordinator, of ‘A merger for identity-erudition. With which he facilitated the drafting an online book, “Creating erudition Communities,” and, the fair Paper, “Life-Long identity-erudition,” that promotes the recognition of the infinite array of learning modalities in addition to communal coaching — e.g. learning co-ops, communal teachs, exclusive teachs, uncoaching, charter teachs. His song is “each should have the right, the liberty, the property and the opportunity to learn what they want, when they want and how they want.

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