In SelfDesign Learning Community – the innovative school I helped co-found in British Columbia in 2002 – our praxis is to support learning in all its shapes, forms and guises. And since we started we have come to recognize that learning is as varied as each learner. To educators and parents perhaps it comes as […]
’21st Century Learning’ needs to connect to nature and the numinous
I was recently asked by my wife, in the course of researching her Masters thesis in SelfDesign Graduate Institute, to reflect on life experiences that provided me with an experience of ‘beauty’. I had no trouble landing on two experiences I had as a child, both during summertime, both outside of schooling, and each of […]