education

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We Are Not Alone, The Shamans Tell Us – Part 2

Continued from part 1 Reconnecting with Nature Effective education must have a large experiential component, I said. Given the current critical imbalance between humans and other species, nature should be a primary area of experiential education. We should balance the abstractions of our classrooms with experiences of the wholeness of […]

An Open Eye on Early Education

Grethe highlights a disturbing development in educational policy. You may not know that in 2007, private as well as state-funded nurseries, were made to apply an educational curriculum including reading, writing, numbers and basic computing, designed by the government (with minimal consultation) and enforced by Ofsted inspection.  In 2009, 4 […]