Emergent Education
We’ve noticed that a lot of educators and educational settings don’t recognize the global economic changes and adapt. We believe that it’s imperative to recognize and accept it and to create education that provides a more seamless transition to college and beyond.
How do we create curriculum, modeling, and teaching methods that address complexity in a way that’s really effective for young minds? What skills does that include? How does that change the way that we approach a classroom?
What we plan to do is integrate traditional methods and progressive methods, using a wider view. A view that allows for both perspectives to co-exist, yet this view will add another layer. We use an emergent approach, which proposes that a synthesis of multiple perspectives allows teachers to meet their students’ needs more effectively, and to provide more effective course work. How? Well, that’s where the fun begins.
Conventional schools tend to deny and ignore rapidly changing times, while progressive schools, who are brilliantly idealistic, and are taking in to account the inherent nature of each child, often fail to provide the skills that students need to be fully empowered in a complex global economy after graduation.
We see a dichotomy: traditional or progressive, and we’d like to generate a new path forward: an Emergent approach to Education. We need to move beyond the partiality that each of these approaches are so self-identified with. We need to embrace them both, thank them for their generous contributions, put them in our tool basket, and walk forward with the with tools in hand for building a new way for our teachers.
The point past the dichotomy is enlivened with possibility, liberated by structures that invite transparent integrity, and a core of orienting principles that procure clarity amidst the complexity. We see an education in which the personal and professional are interdependent, yet fully sprung by the healthy culture of a school in which emotional intelligence, direct communication and academic rigor go hand in hand. Where the values aren’t just words, they are embodied by teachers, students and staff alike. A school where the very hearts and minds of the students are held with deep respect in forums that welcome their voices, even as order is created by hierarchies informed by wisdom and even love.
We know that the point past the dichotomy, is attainable; we’re living it here at the Khabele School.
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