What’s wrong with mainstream education?
TASK: To how many of the following would you say ‘yes’, State your reasons and support with personal and/or research eveidence.
Too mechanistic?;
Too materialistic ?;
Too fragmentary?;
Too shallow – too little concerned with the making of rich and deep meaning (constructing and de-constructing)?;
Too un-spiritual and un-spiritualizing?;
Too little concerned with personal development;
Too little concerned with service and learning through service?;
Too little concerned with heart/feelings?;
Too little involvment of family?;
Too little involvement of and with community?;
Too little concerned with moral/character education?;
Too little concerned with reasoning & thinking skills?;
Too holistically un-challenging?;
Too left-brain (although it doesn’t do that well)?
Too little based on a coherent view of what it is to be fully, and positively, human?;
Too little sense of Mystery, Mythos & the sacred – in a broad non-sectarian sense?
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Author: Roger - Dr Roger Prentice
Now I write, teach and coach mainly self-understanding. At advanced levels About 21stC 'interfaith as inter-spirituality' - and how we can grow closer to our True Self.
In the past I :
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1) I ran courses and give talks at conferences and in universities and colleges in the UK, China, USA, Canada, Scandinavia etc.
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2) I provided materials, outlines and lessons for Schools.
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3) My range of interests include personal development, learning and teaching, photography and film, the arts generally, spirituality and educational practice and theory.
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4) At the same time I continue developing the human-centred studies SunWALK PDS (People Development System) - a whole-person, high-achievement model for individuals, and for use in, NGOs, schools and other organizations.
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5) The key question that continues to animate me and my work remains, "What is it to be fully and positively human?"
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Contact me via onesummit AT gmail DOT com (replace At with@ etc.).
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All good wishes
Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)
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For those interested;
My first degree is in English and Education.
My masters is in Adult and Community Education.
My doctorate presented a new holistic meta-model of education called SunWALK.
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