Well I’m now back in the UK for three months about to engage with learning frameworks for how the UK can renew its infrastructure systems. That was a gruelling but productive three months with you guys helping to set up the InSITE programme. I’ve learned a lot myself and it’s pushed me way beyond my comfort zone.
Here are some of my take aways:
- what really matters is our purpose – and we maintain our integrity by staying true to our purpose
- Purpose and Identity are twin sides of the same coin
- somethings don’t matter and we can just let them go
- learning is complex and schools are complex and people are complex – get over it
- trust, authenticity and challenge are key elements of all learning relationships
- layers loops and processes are a good lens through which to understand complexity
- 21c learning – or futures focused learning is genuinely revolutionary in a Paulo Freire sort of way.
In case you don’t know about Freire you really ought to – a Catholic priest from Brazil who was genuinely revolutionary in his thinking about learning and schooling. Coined the term ‘humanisation’ as the purpose of learning.
And for your continued interest while I am away I thought you’d enjoy watching what a primary school did with Project Based Learning when they dedicated two weeks to it with the whole of year five.
http://learningemergence.net/2014/04/07/learning-dispositions-authentic-inquiry-in-a-primary-school/