More on Empowerment - Moderation and Languages

Naomi Kahane ns_kaha at alcor.concordia.ca
Tue Jun 4 08:31:59 PDT 2002


On 6/3/02 8:49 AM, "Chris Corrigan" <chris at CHRISCORRIGAN.COM> wrote:

> Artur Ferreira da Silva wrote:
>
>> I think that one must understand the 3 levels to understand one of them, as
>> there are similarities (and other relations) between them.
>>
>> The other point I concluded is that, in all three levels, to learn new
>> attitudes is to transform the old "reality" (one of Harrison's texts,
>> available in his site, is "Learning as Transformation"), and that implies
>> to (previously or simultaneously) UNLEARN the old mental models or
>> paradigms (or prejudices).
>>
>> So my current line of research is - how to facilitate unlearning of what
>> one always took for granted? How to facilitate personal, organizational or
>> social metanoia? How to prepare the new generations to continuously
>> question and review their old "knowledge"?
>>
>
> In the world of homeschooling, especially in North America there is a broad
> continuum m of approaches used by families.  One of these approaches, and the
> kind used by our family, is "unschooling."
>
> The essence of unschooling is that learning takes place in exactly the kinds
> of
> ways NOT promoted by schooling, for example, children follow their passions,
> subjects are integrated, not separated, mentors are sought and cross
> generational or multiple age learning takes place, and so on.
>
> As I have begun to guide the learning of my children, i have discovered that
> unschooling is as much about the kid as it is about the parent.  When i was in
> high school myself I did a lot of unschooling on my own, but as I am raising
> children now, I am finding that the process of examining how they best learn
> requires me to fully unschool my approach to learning.
>
> So this is about unlearning how we learn, in order to realize that there are
> better and more effective ways of doing things than the ways we are "taught"/
>
> Last week I came across this article
> (http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.asp?ar=1191&L2=21&L3=37), that
> deals with this same phenomenon with respect to strategic planning in
> organizations.  It is done the same way because people don't expect anything
> else.  For me. selling the concept of unlearning has nothing to do with
> process, but results.  You want a more effective strategic planning exercise?
> OK.  Just like with my kids...I am not unschooling them because i want a
> different process;  I am doing it because i want to raise kids that can learn
> anything.
>
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Chris - A favourite quote comes to mind as I read your posting about
unschooling:

> If you want to build a ship, don't drum up "people" to gather wood, divide the
> work and give orders.  Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless
> sea.
>            Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince


Naomi
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