Need Your Help: OS Colleagues who have been practicing OS in schools...

[Spark]

Ashley- 
 
Quite helpful for us who will have to negotiate the ways of letting parents
let their children practice their two feet early on in their lives...
 
Thank you so much!
 
 

S

Spark (Stanley Park)
Open Space Institute of Korea
218-8 Gusan-dong, Eunpyung-gu
Seoul, Korea
spark at openspace.kr
Phone: 82-2-353-6356
Mobile: 82-10-7247-0636
www.OPENSPACE.kr
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'Let the Nature Work in Our Field'


 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve
Engle
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Need Your Help: OS Colleagues who have been practicing
OS in schools...


My college was Open Space, we didn't know to call it that (maybe it hadn't
even been named at that point), but I see now that that was what it was.  I
graduated from Johnston College, a little 60's-esque school on the campus of
the University of Redlands.  
 
There was no list of classes.  On the first day of classes, teachers,
students, and administrators assembled in a large room and negotiated their
classes.  A student might approach a professor seeking a class on Neitzsche,
and the professor might suggest that she would be particularly excited to
teach that in conjunction with Freud.  Other students might be excited by
the course, but need Jung in there somehow.
 
The students fit the classes into a curriculum that was reviewed by a
committee composed of professors and students, arriving at a Graduation
Contract.  And of course, there were no grades, only written evaluations.
 
The school was absorbed by the University of Redlands (not without some
animosity from the students and alumns).  The no classes thing has been
watered down slightly, and the new classes are negotiated between students
and teachers towards the end of the preceeding semester.  But it has become
one of the crown jewels of the University, and one of the features that sets
it apart from other Liberal Arts colleges.
 
love and light,
Steve


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Spark <spark at openspace.kr>
Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Subject: Need Your Help: OS Colleagues who have been practicing OS in
schools...
To: OSLIST at listserv.boisestate.edu


Inspired by Ashley's OS ventures with the early citizenships of our world,
I'd like to invite cases of OS uses in schools.

My OS colleague, Jackie Seo, and I are going to put together approaches that
worked with school children toward a creation of a collaborative OS
curriculum for formal and informal education institutions here.

Inspiring, lovely cases with comments from children, teachers, parents etc.
would be of great help... :-)

Take care!



On a wintry day in Seoul...

With much Love,

S

Spark (Stanley Park)
Open Space Institute of Korea
218-8 Gusan-dong, Eunpyung-gu
Seoul, Korea
spark at openspace.kr
Phone: 82-2-353-6356
Mobile: 82-10-7247-0636
www.OPENSPACE.kr <http://www.openspace.kr/> 
LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU <http://listserv.boisestate.edu/> 
Harrison- http://www.openspaceworld.com/index.htm
OS World in USA- http://www.openspaceworld.org/
'Let the Nature Work in Our Field'

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