- 12 brain/mind natural learning principles (PDF 716.6 KB)
A discussion of 12 principles of natural learning.
- A better approach to educational improvement (PDF 163.2 KB)
This paper focuses on the influence of changes to the administration of school based education and explores its impact on learning systems. A critical comparison is made of the influences of ‘managerialism’ and institutional economics, in particular principal-agent theory.
- A blueprint for building social competencies in children and adolescents (PDF 324.1 KB)
A paper that discusses ways the establishment of social competencies in children and adolescents.
- A butterfly's lesson (PPT 297.0 KB)
A presentation about a butterfly's struggle to emerge from its cocoon. This is presented as a metaphor for the necessity of challenges and obstacles in learning.
- A character curriculum for the learning age (PDF 29.5 KB)
A paper that discusses education's purpose and potential to create 'characters'.
- A Mu dictionary meaning of developing democratic relationships (PDF 107.5 KB)
An explanation of what it means to develop democratic relationships in education settings.
- A new mind for the new millennium (PDF 153.3 KB)
A script for a play that challenges the beliefs, assumptions, principles, and structures of schooling as we currently know it and offers a different view for educating the minds, hearts, and souls of our children in the next century.
- A personal realisation (PDF 105.2 KB)
One educator's most significant change story.
- A questionnaire to help identify differences among instructional approaches (PDF 46.5 KB)
A series of questions designed to help uncover differences among teachers' instructional approaches.
- A story approach for monitoring change in an agricultural extension project (PDF 214.3 KB)
A paper that discusses a story approach for monitoring change in an agricultural extension project.
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