Integrated Education
Summary
Integrated education blends technical skill and philosophy, to produce well-rounded individuals capable of transformative work. Integrated education provides an integrated skill set for cultural and technical progress of society, by enabling full agency via self-actualization and self-realization. The mission is broad, aiming to create integrated humans.
Some elements of this are:
- inclusion of learners as knowledge creators
- Knowledge creators as knowledge integrators and distillers
- Knowledge integrators as knowhow creators
- Knowhow creators as knowhow distillers/integrators
- Learners becoming practitioners insteaed of talking heads
- Learners using multiple factors of being human, from physical skills, knowledge, knowhow, moral intelligence, emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence, democratic intelligence, collaborative literacy, and other integrated skillsets
- Integrated progress means natural transition into integrated fields of human performance and enterprise, from creative pursuits to enterprise in the narrow sense (entrepreneurship)
Education of the Future
Education which combines academic theory building things and applying sustained effort to local and global transformation. As contrasted with mainstream education designed to continue the same system as in the late 20th century. The goal is to provide a self-reinforcing, multimodal, rapid learning-with-a-purpose applied to solving pressing world issues by eradicating artificial scarcity of timeless, productive knowhow. However, the key aspect of integrated education is deep purpose - the ethics of win-win situations which leave nobody behind - through the art of possibility. This ethic is based on collaborative design that yields sound, inclusive, democratic institutions that resolve outstanding issues of classism, authoritarianism, over-specialization, and other behaviors that distort a level playing field. Such an education revolves around cultivating individuals who are undergoing constant learning and transformation, psychosocial integration - as a route to personal amd political transformation.
Execution
How do you implement the above? That is expressed in operations.
Teachers
- Peter Drucker - The greatest thinker on management. The Effective Executive.
- Jim Collins - the greatest thinker on building enduring great organizations. Good to Great
- Alfred Korzybski - the greatest thinker on perception and construction of meaning
- Christopher Voss - the greatest practitioner of negotiation. Never Split the Difference and others [1].
