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The Regenerative Education System and Practice — Part 2
To get caught up, start with part one of this series here.
The Seven Premises of Regenerative Education Based on Living Systems
An attempt at articulating The Regenerative Paradigm for Education is offered here by comparing the older paradigm, to expose the errors, with the living systems view. It is illustrated through the 7 Premises that are intended to show the difference in what an education system and process looks like in each world.
Premise One: Engage with Wholes
Learning is best and deepest, i.e. tied to reality, when it is happening in the context of a Value Adding Process, not abstract courses by an arbitrary categorization of fragmented subjects. Key is developing learnings in the process of contribution learners are making (in real time) to a specific greater whole intended to create a particular value beyond the school, organization, family. There is simultaneous actualizing and potentializing. Learning and manifesting.
What that looks like
To unwind the centuries of defining education by fragmented subjects conducted in a classroom format we ensure that each learning event is being applied to a place and role in creating something…
