Notes from June 5 2009
Embody to learn. This means observe how it works and feels. Test, observe, reflect – a learning cycle. Scientific process just like natural science – this is cultural and spiritual science.
Philosophy -> Process -> Context
We are representatives of alternative futures
Why? Spirit; What? Technology and Science: How? Arts & Prout
Social banks can create opportunities for individual and social improvement.
Question is how to define capital:
Ø Financial
Ø Human/social
Ø Natural
Ø Spiritual
Redefine purpose of banks for profit or empowerment?
Money as energy – a medium for service; must be a currency of love. This way it builds relationship rather than, as it currently does, weakening relationship. Money must build trust in communities rather than break it.
Ecology – ecos = home
Progress or regress? Must remember that consciousness is born of choice
We are on a journey – collective caravan of souls and cultures
Sentiments forge identity. We need to build universal sentiment to foster intercultural identity. See cultures as resources for a universal human society of animate and inanimate universe.
Work towards economic democracy
Sustainability is about balance – inner, outer, and intra
Intercultural entrepreneurship is about the intra – imagination an intercultural resource that expands categories of the possible. Thus the intercultural entrepreneur becomes a shaman, charting the inbetween.
The shaman can reframe Value. Develop a pedagogy supportive of economic democracy. This is a pedagogy that dances between the heart and the head (sentiment and intellect) and between individual and society (agency and structure).
Traversing the inbetween:
Transcendental → Transdisciplinary → Transformation
Thoughts for next year
Have two students in each session whose task is to sum the session up for the collective at a later time.
Have a one day Futures day at the beginning of the session
Have students who are dedicated filmers who have an assessment mark attached to their constructing accounts of session themes
Track tasks between this session (2009-2010) and the next: the relationship between Dada’s CNS and Academy; Bima’s ‘school’; a publication by Eddy and Marcus; accounts from Africa and Bolivia
International course visitors run sessions on how they enact intercultural encounters
Jan Erik & Per both give overviews of their journeys with intercultural education
Invite African attendees to make suggestions for next event
Juma running a seminar on humour
Poetry and Music
Music and Visual Arts – traveling exhibition, SI founding? Sculpture, Media, Short films – intercultural work
Students to make database on alternative energy and other sustainable initiatives entrepreneurship
What is this intercultural pedagogy? Alternative Educational Futures – focus on SD (buy Alternative Educational Futures as a PDF)
Broader issues relating to the course, ie inter related units that bring depth to practice: History and Future, Reflections on Philosophy, Pragmatism (comparing to descriptions and understanding of different Philosophic traditions) reflective and supporting the activities
Balancing the prepared workstructure with Emerging Activities in the In between Playground.
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