OSLIST Digest - 3 Aug 2005 to 4 Aug 2005 - Special issue (#2005-210) What are the possibilities of using Open Space Technology in the elementary school classroom?

[Alan Stewart]

Hi All

 

A lovely item related to this, on philosophical inquiry in elementary schools, can be seen on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website. 

See: Encounter: 17 July  2005  - Is Small Really Lost? 

for the print version of the story http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/s1415393.htm

 

The audio will also be available for about another week on http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/default.htm

 

Here you will find precisely the kind of facilitation skills listed by Ashley: 

 

"... how to follow the flow of attention, adding upon what was emerging, inviting depth from that which was present.' 

 

being practised by the children as well as their teachers. 

 

With love

 

Alan 

Hong Kong 

 

 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ashley cooper 
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  Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 1:01 AM
  Subject: Re: OSLIST Digest - 3 Aug 2005 to 4 Aug 2005 - Special issue (#2005-210) What are the possibilities of using Open Space Technology in the elementary school classroom?


  Hi Pat,

  I was a teacher at a school which claimed to use the Reggio approach. A major problem that I found was that  it was difficult for many teachers and administrators to adopt this approach at a core level. They liked how it sounded on paper, but did not know (and were not appropriately trained) how to follow the flow of attention, adding upon what was emerging, inviting depth from that which was present.

  I now wonder if training in OS principles would help to facilitate the degree of awareness that is also necessary in the Reggio approach.

  Thanks for making that link for me.

  Ashley


  On 8/5/05, Pat Black <patblack at paulbunyan.net> wrote:
    I have used Open Space quite a bit in the classroom at all ages and it has always worked.  There is an interesting infant/ toddler care and preprimary municipal funded education system in Italy with quite a bit of history that is operated on self-organizing and open space principles.  It is Reggio Emilia.  The Hundred Languages of Children:  The Reggio Emilia Approach edited by Carolyn Edwards might be of interest to those interested in this topic.  There are Reggio Approach schools all of the world at this point since they have been around for some 40 odd years.

    Pat Black

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