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Whole Education brings together and promotes education that seeks to provide a broader and deeper education for all young people, which will both prepare them better for life in the 21st century and enrich the society in which they live.
Website: http://www.wholeeducation.org
Members: 50
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The leading non-political and non-profit-making organisations that have come together to form Whole
Education are determined to change this. They want all young people to receive a well-rounded education
that they can relate to. They want all young people to learn practical skills such as communication and
teamwork, to develop qualities such as resilience and empathy and to acquire knowledge that goes beyond
literacy and numeracy to an understanding of our culture. A Whole Education will combine practical
skills with theory, vocational and academic study for all young people whatever their ability.
What does Whole Education do?
- Promotes projects that bring a richness and liveliness to learning.
- Encourages schools and young people's organisations to adopt such projects.
- Provides a forum, through the Whole Education Network, our website and our events, for teachers, youth workers and others to find out about the projects that support a broader and more balanced education.
- Encourages teachers, parents, employers, young people, academics, politicians, youth workers, and the wider community to come together and decide what is important in education.
- Promotes the idea that education should be about more than just testing and academic achievement, to politicians, policy makers, and the wider public.
How can you get involved?
Visit our website and sign up to support us
Send us examples of great projects that support our common beliefs
Send us stories of people who have benefited from a whole education - it could be you, your neighbour, your daughter, your student...
Tell us what a Whole Education means to you
Discussion Forum
What is the relationship between learning, development and wellbeing? 1 Reply
Started by Norman Jackson. Last reply by Russ Law May 12.
School Uniforms
Having grown up in Switzerland where school uniforms are not used, I feel a bit uneasy when I see the uniformed children in the UK.Most people who grew up in the uniformed culture, don't seem to have…Continue
Started by Gabriel Schucan Oct 8, 2012.
What does a Whole Education mean to you? 5 Replies
What is important in education? What should a good education include? What is being done well at the moment and what isn't?Continue
Tags: whole, in, innovation, education
Started by Charlotte Young. Last reply by Norman Jackson Feb 24, 2012.
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Comment by Richard Pickford on April 12, 2013 at 13:33 -
Hi Group,
I wanted to draw your attention to the work of 2020 Education. They are looking for innovative and creative projects run by young people and teachers that are aiming to improve society. They want support and projects to showcase. Check out the link if your interested. http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2013/fellowship/2020-education-post/
Thanks
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Comment by Norman Jackson on February 10, 2013 at 17:37 -
A central idea underlying lifewide learning and development is that we use all the different spaces and opportunities that life has to offer to be the person we want or need to be. The latest issue of Lifewide Magazine examines the idea and offers a range of perspectives and personal accounts including a feature by Marcia Baxter Magolda on 'authoring your life'. How does formal education facilitate this process of becoming the person a person wants to be?
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Comment by Norman Jackson on November 16, 2012 at 12:32
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Russ Law discusses the idea of 'Explorativity' in the lifewide education e-book
http://www.lifewideebook.co.uk/conceptual.html
Explorativity, a concept coined and developed by the author, is a habitual means of ensuring one’s lifelong learning in an informal or formal way. By exploring, he argues, we discover openings and opportunities which might otherwise be denied to us. Whilst some might be dead ends, there will be others which can be life changing. Being open to explorativity results in an attitude or approach that is likely to improve or enhance situations, states of mind, relationships, environments or lifestyles. An explorative person can bring about developments in themselves (personal changes) that make their own lives more satisfying. They see innovation and development as normal and unthreatening features of life – even to be able to see the positive potential of unavoidable change, or at least to be able to deal better with its impact.
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Comment by Russ Law on July 14, 2012 at 14:34 -
Just starting to explore your community, which looks like an excellent group of people with sound educational values and principles. May I make a link with another, relatively new group that aims to support lifelong and lifewide education: http://lifewideeducation.co.uk/home ?
Tomorrow, Sunday 15th July, there will be a twitter exchange, so here's an invitation to that:
LIFEWIDE LEARNING TWITTER EXCHANGE INVITATION:
Sunday July 15 - Friday 20th: LIFEWIDE EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
We invite you to join us in a twitter event aimed at sharing examples of what some schools do to support lifewide learning.
Topic addresses: examples to share; opportunities and challenges; what Higher Education can learn from schools
Topic Host: Russ Law TWEET TO: #LWE3
GETTING A TWITTER ACCOUNT
If you are not already a twitter user, please go to http://twitter.com and sign yourselves up for a free account that will enable you to participate.
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Comment by Gabriel Schucan on October 10, 2011 at 18:55 -
I just came across this Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/eng//id/1241 and felt that it is an important contribution to the education debate: The longer mammals are allowed to be children, the more intelligent/flexible they become as adults. Unlike the common idea, that babies/children should 'behave' and learn to do adult things as soon as possible (such as sleeping through the night, keeping tidy, not stare at people, etc). I'm sure it extends into more advanced childhood, too.
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Comment by Keith Heggart on March 13, 2011 at 11:15 -
Well put. I also agree with your assessment of mature entry teachers. If I can pick follow up on one point - how do we encourage these kind of people into teaching careers? And can you provide more information about 'the potential of a learner's personality' - I'd like to read more.
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Comment by Ian Lewis on March 13, 2011 at 11:05 -
Inspirational teachers who really want to teach, have a vitality for a life well lived and who see their teaching as thier contribution to the quality of their own lives and the lives of their children. My best teachers had other work before becoming teachers because they really wanted to be teachers. It is easy to spot those who want to hide in the education world - their relationships with learners is shallow and time-bound and they evolve little themselves. Enough about the educators...
Education is about enthusing learners, helping them find - or inspiring - curiosity, flair and energy and leveraging this towards acheivement and enjoyment of life. Constantly setting new and inspiring challenges which support new experiences, creativity and creates high esteem. Recently the concept of 'education is about realising the potential of a learners personality' has had useful application because it starts where the learner is and can get to, rather than where others want them to go.
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Comment by Keith Heggart on March 13, 2011 at 10:37
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Hi Gabriel,
Excellent point. I think you are touching on what we call, in Australia and probably elsewhere, lifelong learning. As a high school teacher, I find it concerning that so many 12 and 13 year olds who arrive in Year 7 are already fed up with the factory model of school - they see learning as something that is done to them, rather than something that they are part of. In effect, they abdicate their agency within school - or have it removed from them.
I think the whole education debate has a lot in common with the ideas behind popular and progressive education - like that suggested by Dewey or Paulo Freire. Thoughts?
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Comment by Gabriel Schucan on March 7, 2011 at 16:11
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My ideal school education would celebrate childhood as a vibrant period of life where the children are encouraged to be curious. If teachers have to focus on making sure the pupils attain the right marks and match the level of the next stage (secondary or tertiary education), how can they focus on the children's individual interests?
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Comment by Keith Heggart on March 1, 2011 at 0:06
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Hi Frances,
I agree - in addition to knowledge and skills, there is a requirement for engagement. And I think this is where Jody's ecological and energy literacy might fit in: after all, engagement can be developed through students investigating local issues or issues of their own choice, which might very well be an ecological study.
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