Thursday, 31 October 2013

Making sense of self - 1st point of the Equinox List

 
Continuing from the previous post: What will schools be like for children born in 2013?
 
The Equinox list is a good start point for discussing how schools should change.
 
Here is their first point:
1. Learning focuses on the development of lifelong learning practices and a sense of self, rather than facts and figures.
I would not dispute the first - developing lifelong learning practices seems a worthy goal. But the sense of self? Rather than facts and figures?
This seems to be conflated from many phrases, a typical focus group problem when trying to reduce a list from many to few.
But what does a sense of self mean? Is that the priority? Or should it be a sense of how the self fits in to the community?
Sense of self rather than "facts and figures"?
Can anyone help to make this clearer?

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