LIFE LONG HOLISTIC EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE, PEACEFUL SOCIETY, that can benefit from HOMESCHOOLING & UNSCHOOLING amongst other. 1) UNSCHOOLING reminds me of a committee meeting of us 12 tertiary educators, organizing the 2d Internationsl Conference on Experiential Education [held in Sydney (Hawkesburry campus) for 5 days, with 300 residental + 200 day participants, in late 1980s], when we ALL agreed that WE NEEDED TO UNLEARN WHAT WE LEARNED IN OUR [HIGH] MAINSTREAM EDUCATION. I was VERY happy about that concensus, yet do NOT know HOW anyone else went about UNLEARNING and HOW THEY MIGHT HAVE PASSED IT ON TO THEIR STUDENTS, but want to share here HOW i put it in practice IN TERTIARY EDUCATION. 2) EMPOWERING PARADIGM SHIFT CAN BE INDUCED IN HIGH EDUCATION AS WELL. - At the time I was a guest lecturer on Empowerment and a tutor at Prof. Ted Trainers General Studies course at NSW University, Sydney, on Global Crisis and Transition to Sustainable Society, and applied INTEGRAL PERSPECTIVE in my tutorials - which I always NATURALLY NEEDED, and got support for by my highly educated, inquisitive and open minded father. The effect of my VALIDATING EVERY STUDENTS PERSPECTIVE, NO MATTER HOW IT APPEARED TO START WITH, AND FACILITATING A WIN-WIN WEAVING IT INTO THE WHOLE TAPESTRY BUILD UP BY THE WHOLE CLASS, was that by the end of the semester, when I would ask my students to list ALL THEY HAVE LOST and WHAT THEY HAVE GAINED by doing that course (in my tutorial group), THEY INVARIABLY FOUND OUT, TO THEIR DELIGHT, THAT EVERY SINGLE THING THEY FIRST THOUGHT WAS SOME KIND OF A LOSS WAS IN FACT A TRUE GAIN. 3) LOSSES ON OUR PATH TO SUSTAINABILITY - Over the ten years that I worked in that course as a tutor, ALL my groups reported that they LOST PREJUDICE, FEAR IN THE BIG BAD WORLD, HATRED, FEELING DISEMPOWERED, LACK OF PURPOSE, TRYING TO FIT IN, LONELINESS, LETHARGY, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, STRUGGLING, HIGH STRESS and quite a few also THEIR BELIEF IN BECOMING A SPECIALIST IN THEIR BRANCH OF STUDIES, BEING HIGHLY COMPETITIVE AND SUCCESSFUL BY MAKING HUGE AMOUNTS OF $$$, LIVING LUXURIOUSLY, etc. 4) GAINS ON OUR PATH TO SUSTAINABILITY - My students also reported that they GAINED INSTEAD BROADER UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF EACH OTHER, SKILLS IN WIN-WIN CONFLICT RESOLUTION, COURAGE TO BE WHO THEY ARE, FEELING EMPOWERED, HOLISTIC PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN MOTIVATED TO ACT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY AND PEACE, REAL PURPOSE IN THEIR LIFE, LOWER STRESS AND INCREASED EASE IN THEIR LIFE, APPRECIATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND WHAT OUR CULTURE HAS BEEN DOING TO IT, CORE SHIFT IN THEIR VALUE SYSTEM TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE LIFE, LOVE, WILL TO COOPERATE, etc. 5) INDIVIDUAL SHIFTS - Quite a few of my student either refined their focus in their field of study or changed it completely. A student studying architecture, yet feeling lonely and without real purpose or direction in life, emotionally feeling abandoned and disconnected from his affluent parents, BECAME ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SUSTAINABLE AND SOLAR EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE. He kept in touch with me for another decade, saying that course changed his whole life for the better, and sharing his delight in and success in his work, in tune with his purpose. Another student, who was studying COMMERCE AND LAW, and was highly competitive, judgemental and $$$ oriented, said that from doing this course HE UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WAS DELUDED IN BELIEVING HIS CHOICES WERE TO LEAD HIM TO REAL SUCCESS IN LIFE so he was going to abandon his field of study and engage in STUDYING PERMACULTURE INSTEAD. Several of my tutorial groups gave me a collective thank you card, expressing individually on it their happiness for having learned something that was going to make their lives more meaningful, healthier and happier. Pls in the comments ot this post SHARE ONLY YOUR OWN HANDS ON EXPERIENCE (rather than any pet ideals or theory, no matter how enticing they might sound) and/or links about REAL LiFE EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE DOING SOMETHING - ANYTHING, BIG OR SMALL, IN ANY AREA OF LIFE, PRIVATE, PROFESSIONAL OR VOLUNTARY - ON OUR PATH TO SUSTAINABLE, HEALTHY, PEACEFUL AND COOPERATIVE SOCIETY. Pls SHARE THE LINK TO THIS STATUS (preferably to sharing only the link to its original post, but of course it is your choice ) so that we can GET THE TIDAL WAVE GOING TOWARDS OUR SHARED GOAL(S). Thanks. Tiyana Maksimovich-Binno 15 January 2015 Chemtrails Sydney >> Paradigm Shift https://facebook/homeschoolingworld…
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