What sort of education do young people really need now?
What would happen if you asked your school community this question? What answers would they give you? Are you ready to find out? Would you like your community to be prepared to find out and deal with the answers? Are you willing to join us in transforming education globally - starting with your community? Are you willing to share your experience to help other communities go through the same process?
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How can your school provide such an education?
Why not join us through a process that will:
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What is needed to transform a school? |
Can we Find the Heart of Education? |
When you go on a journey do you make preparations? For a challenging process, wouldn't you want to be as ready as you can be? What is needed for this process? Do you have a community where trust is implicit, deep-seated and shared? Do you have good, effective communication between you members? Do you all collaborate - learner and teacher; parent and educator; learner and parent? Are you each a leader and a supporter? Then perhaps you are ready? If not, would you like some support?
Does education need to change?
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What do you think should be at the heart of education? Is it something that gives young people what they need? Is it related to our common humanity? Should it be about helping us to build better societies, better responses to our failings as custodians of our environment? Should it lead to developing better responses to each other - using our similarities to help us bond, allowing to discover and learn from our differences? Is not the heart of education that which builds a better future through our common humanity? Is this not where we show begin our journey?
What is our process?Are you ready to look deep into your community's levels of trust? Are you ready to question your ability to communicate as a community? Are you ready, as a community, to overhaul the way you collaborate? If you aren't, reflect on what that means for your community? If you are ready, why not do it (with help from us)? If you have (or are on the way to having) true trust, effective communication, great collaboration why not ask some bigger questions? Are you ready to ask, 'what sort of education do young people really need for now and their unknown future? Is your community ready to discuss how their school provides such an education?
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Education should help all young people to develop towards maximising their possibilities for success and happiness in our unknown futures
A-JIS learning community, Tokyo, 2017
Note: our lasting happiness comes from taking positive action for those in our communities and for our environments - Teenage learners at A-JIS.
You Discover the Approach You Need to Succeed
We use questions like those above to help guide communities along a pathway they ultimately define. Communities are welcome to use the process to transform themselves, but we offer the help and support to really make a difference. Whether it is just listening or reading your ideas or providing feedback or even visiting you to help, we offer a helping hand to take those questions to the level of shared humanity - to the level we all understand - to where education for all must start.
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Starting at the level of our shared human values, we find that education is about developing the attributes of the holistic learner - attributes such as collaboration, empathy, reflection, curiosity as well as inquiry, multi-perspective thinking, anti-fragility. The outcome of transforming our education towards enabling young people to develop an active wisdom is surely a better society which, in turn can protect our environment and strengthen our communities.
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