Communities of Learning
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A New Story of Education For a New Century
Lisa Lindberg
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References -- people whose ideas I drew for this proposal - - systems thinkers all.
1. Buckminster Fuller
2. Appolinaire
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Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and co-author of Free to Choose
(1976). Paraphrased conclusion to his 1998/11/16 address to the Education Conference of the Stanford Institute
for Economic Policy Research.
Broadcast on C-SPAN Radio the following week.
4. Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (1980)
5. On imaginal frameworks, systems thinking, paradigms, worldviews :
Walt Whitman, 19th century American poet. Quote on the "invisible structures that secretly govern everything.“
Jean Piaget, 20th-Century Swiss developmental
psychologist. Based on his conceptualization that optimum cognitive development requires
balancing these two response dynamics to new stimuli :
(a) accommodation : manipulating
ones internal schema (existing cognitive structures) so new stimuli can fit
(b) assimilation :
manipulating the stimuli to make it fit into existing schema
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Classic, seminal work on the understanding of how paradigms are constructed, what they are for, and
how they change. A physicist who declares the indebtedness
of his ideas to many social scientists, including Jean Piaget (see p. vii. of 1970 edition) .
Kenneth Boulding,The
Image: Knowledge and Life in Society
Ervin Lazlo, A Systems View of the World (1972). Especially his last chapters on the implications of systems thinking for social
organizations.
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Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) - - ICA-USA, ICA-World, ICA-International. |
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Jean Houston
<info@jeanhouston.org>
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This link is to Amazon.com |
A rollicking story of her life - - the amazing arrays of people she has known and projects she has been involved in, told within the mythic framework she has built for herself to hold it all together. |
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Ursula LeGuin, The Dispossessed (1974).
The link on the title is to an on-line study guide created by Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman |
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For ideas on decentralized governance, the connecting together of
the parts of a civilization, and in general on the individual's role in creating an ideal society. I first read
this book in the Summer of 1980 on a peaceful, lovely island in Lake Michigan in northern Wisconsin, where I had gone to learn to
weave. I have since have read it numerous times more ; Ursula's lovely ideas in this work have put it on my permanent
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Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (1992) |
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For the quote, “Every story is the working out of a premise.” |
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation Program
and TM-Sidhi Program.. On the "Fundamentals of Progress": Stability, Adaptability, Integration, Purification, and Growth. I first heard of this system in the mid 1970's, and have found it to be very helpful in many
applications. Also many ideas on the relationship of the Individual
and Society.
Alexander and Kathia Laszlo of Syntony Quest are applying the systems perspective
to the area of learning (see their story). See their Keynote
Presentation, "Systems Thinking, Learning Communities, and Educational Change" of the Virtual Conference on Integrative Learning - - "Learning Millennium
99." See also their chapter, "Learning to Become: Creating Evolutionary Learning Community Through Evolutionary Systems
Design" in the book Creating Learning Communities
by The Coalition for Self-Learning (2000). In that online book's consultants section, the Laszlos
describe their work as follows: "Learning to think anew requires learning to learn anew. Current educational
reform does not address this challenge. Our work facilitates the design of Evolutionary Learning Communities where
people can engage in lifelong learning and meaningfully contribute to the creation of a sustainable future." In this chapter, they use the systems approach
to gaint insights into the dynamics of social systems. Alexander and Kathia's ideas in their article "Learning to Become" significantly helped
me define the social dynamics characteristic of my proposed "communities
of learning." I adapted their ideas in the section of this website entitled
Social
Systems: Evaluating Evolutionary Sustainability of 4 Group Types.
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Notes 6, 7, & 8: On Multi-Centered Networks
6.
Duncan Work, <duncan@netdeva.com>, my colleague and life partner since 1970. Designer of
Net Deva, a collaborative, web-based software tool for building extended human networks based
on mutual value, trust, and respect. Net Deva and the Internet are both tools
to enable the personal connections of the future - - flattening power pyramids into free, open, voluntary, peer-to-peer
exchange. Duncan introduced me to the concepts of multi-centered networks and
of voluntarily-affiliated, self-governing communities.
7. Children's Environments Project, of the Architecture and Urban Planning Research Center, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture and Urban Planning. A multi-award-winning team of architects and social scientists applying both theoretical and empirical research on human development to designing environments for children and families. We used the pattern-language approach as our overall modus operendi. Among the awards this work received were two years in a row in the category of Applied Research in Progressive Architecture Magazine's annual design competition, 1979 and 1980.
Little did I know when I first read in the UW-M paper about this interesting-sounding project, that this Architecture School had one of the world's hotbeds of environment-behavior studies. I started out as the project's typist, where the people on this project soon very graciously offered me one of the project's Graduate Research Assistantship, so I got to move up to research and writing. In addition, I began giving slide presentations on our work to community groups both locally and in other states. As a member of this Architecture School, I was welcomed to attend all class lectures, exhibitions, critiques of student work, as well as special presentations. In addition, the professors invited me to take any graduate and undergraduate course that interested me. I had free rein and assistance in using the extensive facilities in the library of books and images, the photo lab, the wood shop, and the metal shop. My experience as a member of this community of people and their facilities has played a large role in my envisioning what would go on in a Community Learning Center.
Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein, Jacobson, Fiksdahl-King, & Angel,
Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California In 1978, my colleagues in the Children's Environments Project introduced
me to this team's work, and ever since, I continue to glean delicious ideas from them. The vision and strategy in my Communities of Learning proposal
use many of this team's ideas. See the (numbered) design patterns listed in the underneath bar :
8.
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction.(1977)
(The link is to on-line summaries of each pattern.)
This link is to Amazon.com
10. For the concept of "chunking" : Kevin Kelly, author of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (1994), Out of Control : The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic
World (1996), and New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1998). All on the transformative dynamics at work in all aspects of our emerging
era.
Quote in middle of Part 3, under “The American
Education System: Lagging Behind,” : from New Rules,
p. 118.
11. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. See note 5.
12. Dee Hock, coiner of the
term "chaordic." Author of Birth of the Chaordic Age (1999). Founder (in 1970) and currently CEO Emeritus of VISA International, an example of a chaordic
organization : a cooperative structure of autonomous parts in competition with each other
for business. Founder (in 1997) and Coordinating Director of the Chaordic Alliance, a non-profit
organization established to facilitate this way of people working together. Terra
Civitas.
13. Jean
Liedloff, The Continuum Concept : In Search of Happiness Lost (1975).
See Piaget - - in Note 5
14. Jessica Lipnack
and Jeffrey Stamps of NetAge, The Age of the Network : Organizing Principles for the 21st Century (1994), p. 129. Since the 1970’s these folks
have pioneered the work of identifying and studying the significance and power of the emerging social structure
of the human network.
15. O. Earle Miller,
The New Einsteinian Culture and Communication (1967. 76 pages) In 1971, insightful friend Jim Scofield read this book then gave it
to me to read, saying he thought I would like it. I read it, was instantly enamored of Miller's ideas, and continue
to remain so.
16. Philip Evans
and Thomas Wurster, Blown to Bits (2000).
Examples of how in the business world, the new economics of information is causing the command-and-control authoritarian
pyramid model to collapse, and to bring about the new, complex-system model characterized by the fluid turmoil
of peer-to-peer exchange.
17. See
Laszlo, Note 5
18. Paul Saffo, quoted from. In Regina Fazio Maruca "The New Economy Gets Real : Voices." Fast Company, September 2000, p. 128. Saffo is a technology forecaster and director of the Institute for the Future.
19. Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps of NetAge, The Networking Book : People Connecting with People (1982, 1986), p. 2 & 13.
20. John Naisbitt, Megatrends : Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives (1982) p. 211 & 229.
21. R. Buckminster Fuller, 1982 (in Introduction to 1986 edition), Jessica Lipnack
and Jeffrey Stamps of NetAge, The Networking Book: People Connecting with People (1982, 1986), pp. ix-x.
22. Roger and Birute The Soul at Work (2000). Delightful, insightful book about how commerce is nothing other that an activity among real-live people, and which therefore is guided by all the dynamics of human relationships.
23. Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot, The End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization -- "freedom and community"
24. Ursula
LeGuin, note
25. Nathan Myhrvold, the term “democratization of power.” In Regina Fazio
Maruca "The New Economy Gets Real : Voices." Fast Company, September
2000, p. 126. Myhrvold is former chief technology officer at Microsoft; cofounder of Intellectual Ventures LLC,
a private partnership exploring entrepreneurial pursuits in technology.
26. See Piaget in Note 5
27. Ballard,
inventor of the “Jason” deep-sea exploration device, and founder of the ”Jason Project.” Segment on Morning Edition,
National Public Radio, broadcast 2001/03/05.
29. Behavior of adolescent elephants, Time Magazine
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Illustration Credits
Photographs and graphics by Lisa Lindberg, unless otherwise credited.
Parts 1 - 5 : Illustration descriptions and credits yet to come.
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