Person-centred Education and Holistic Education

Presentation for the Uni. of Sussex Saturday 31st Jan 2009 Dr Roger Prentice ,[object Object],[object Object]

The 4 Cs - at its simplest I will be suggesting that the human spirit, and therefore education, is intra-personally about; ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Video ‘Socrates for six-year olds’ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

If you are an experienced professional the purpose of an MA, it has been suggested, is: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

My brief for today ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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17 Central Concerns of Holistic, Human-centred or Person-centred education – 1 to 8 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

17 Central Concerns of Holistic, Human-centred or Person-centred education – 9 - 27 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Too few Wholists in relation to number of specialists ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What is Holistic Education? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“ What is it to function holistically - as a holistic practitioner ?” Ultimately my answer =? ,[object Object],[object Object]

But in steps along the path of development it is; ,[object Object],[object Object]

Four key quotations : ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Fourthly Wilber on the parts and the Whole; ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Some defining characteristics of Holistic Education ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The most useful contemporary flowering of Socratic education is PFC, Philosophy for Children, by Prof Matthew Lipman Professor Matthew Lipman started developing PFC in 1969. PFC = Text+agenda of questions+facilitating process It is the exemplary programme for the development of criticality in my SunWALK model.

"No existential engagement, no deep learning." - Peter Abbs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Examples of other aspects of the paradigmatic shift – it’s the co-equivalent of the shift from Newtonian physics to Einstein & post-Einstein physics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

On Universalism or Perennial Philosophy – “God has no religion.” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Perennial Philosophy in one sentence ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

HERE IS HOW KEN WILBER SUMMARIZES THE 7 MAJOR POINTS OF THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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If you think of additional questions after today contact me at…. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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