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Organic Learning | Robert Haines | July 13th, 2005

Hi everyone,

Here's the first part of an article that might interest you, especially if you work with young learners. You can access the entire article by clicking on the title below.

Happy reading!

Rob

Organic Learning: Crossing the Threshold from Conscious and Unconscious
By Grethe Hooper Hansen

Grethe Hooper Hansen is an independent scholar and researcher presently living in Bath, England. Her writings and presentations are recognized internationally.

Life since September 11, 2001, will never be the same again. The implication for education is that the mode of thinking which focuses more or less exclusively on Aristotelian logic has failed us.   Concentrating on the trees, we have lost sight of the wood. Logic can help us to set up a world-wide police force to help protect us from more of the same, but it cannot open up those aspects of mind, which bring balance and wisdom to modify its enthusiasms.

There have been many wake-up calls: from Carl Rogers, Ivan Ilich, Paolo Freire; more recently from Howard Gardner, Herbert Benson, Daniel Golemen, Parker Palmer, Tobin Hart, and Alan Block, to name just a few. The quantum revolution, now nearly a century old, spelled out in great detail the changes that needed to be made to balance yang with yin. But in the absence of a theoretical framework with which such change could be understood and justified, the snowball of education rolled on down its steep slope, increasing its load of tests and examinations. Education is slow to change for the Newtonian reason that we do not teach something until we fully understand it.

 

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