Open Spacing Schools & an Xmas Competition in catalysts of self-organising

Pannwitz, Michael M mmpanne at snafu.de
Mon Dec 22 04:07:06 PST 2003


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
>
>wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk (in spite of this address my daughter's in a
>school in Maryland, US)
>
>www.valuetrue.com
>
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