welcome to my newest blog....
The Divergence Imperative is still under development and design. Thus far, I have added the basic framework, included some influential and inspiring videos, added some of my own stuff and links to other blogs and resources for good pedagogy.
Thanks to those who know me and suggested, nudged and otherwise inspired me to step out beyond ecomyths and into the realm of the central role of education in facilitating sustainability as change.
Change is constant. It is both ongoing and inevitable. Our only options are to embrace change, to sustain and creatively develop ourselves, our communities, our landscapes and our lives, or to resist, desist and wallow in the stasis of our own mediocrity, to justify our coma of complacency and lash out in protest at the injustices of life like indulgent, indolent toddlers.
Education that instructs students on criticism, conformity and
convergent thinking, constricts and censures. Grades are taken as a
measure of learning, assessment becomes a calculus of defined
memorization and recitation of prescribed dogma, and education becomes a
system for trained compliance and a tool of oppression.
Education needs to do more than inform, instruct and inflame. It needs to create, foster and facilitate divergent thinking. From divergence comes creativity, from creativity comes innovation, inspiration and sustained development. Divergence encourages enhanced interpersonal and interpersonal awareness and intelligences. Divergence fosters enthusiasm and engagement: it is education that sustains change and builds futures.
