Integrating Science and Soul in Education
Sue has just completed a great presentation on Science and Soul for the upcoming
CONASTA ICASE conference in Perth. It's in two parts and is 25 mins long. Great visuals!
Part 1:
Part 2:
Labels: conceptual frameworks, integral, learning, spirituality, sustainability, systems, teaching, worldviews
Can Schools Save the Planet?
If politicians are talking about global warming it must be VERY serious according to Robert Cailliau, a co-inventor of the world-wide-web, who spoke at the
Global Summit 2006 yesterday.
Cailliau suggests that educators need to consider the role of education in addressing some of the most challenging issues that face the planet today. But how? What knowledge, skills, understanding, apptitudes... will help learners to help the planet?
Einstein reminded us that you can't solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them. What kind of thinking do we need in educational institutions and how will it be different?
We can talk about engaging and empowering students to be active learners and global citizens in a technology connected world but what about different ways of thinking?
Is it about looking at principles of sustainability and social justice such as those expressed in
The Earth Charter ?
Is it about the knowledge and skills and understanding of futures thinking and
social foresight?
Is it about challenging our
assumptions and worldviews and using more
holistic or
integral ways knowing and being?
If we don't "think differently" how as
James Boscoe asked delegated do we know we won't be sitting at conferences in 20 years time asking ourselves the same questions? Or perhaps we won't have the luxury of being able to sit in conference buildings... at least where they are built now anyway...
Labels: sustainability, transformation
