The Blue Crane
Supporting alternatives in education
Eastern Cape, South Africa - Berlin, Germany
Tiger Mountain
Open access multidisciplinary ecologically based learning centre - Berlin
A very new project to start a state-of-the-art
learning, cultural, social and ecological centre in Berlin. Two sites
are under consideration:
Scharnweber Str and Rigaer Str...
TING
Free Democratic School - Berlin
True learning is an active process with the learner formulating the questions, researching and assessing the answers. Setting their own goals and reaching them. This can include the possibility of changing or abandoning one line of study in favour of another. This is a lifelong process; lifelong learning.
To learn something new is hard enough work. Learning
something new that you don't want to learn is extremely difficult and
in most cases can lead to failure. Being forced to learn something you
don't want to is almost certainly doomed to failure.
The last almost 100 years of non-coercive education practice (Summerhill,
Sudbury etc), has shown conclusively that pupils learning in a non-coercive
environment demonstrate a far greater ability to absorb not only the core
learning for any subject, but that there is a greater holistic, multidisciplinary
approach to the subject in hand. This also affects the teachers and the
teaching of subjects.
At "ting" students will learn what they
want when they want.
However outlandish this may seem, it accelerates and ads profundity to
the learning process.
The democratic environment at "TING" will allow for the development of responsibility for the community and the rights of the individual. Taking an active part in the school administration gives "ownership" of the school to the people attending the school, removing the "them and us" factor that is so prevalent in the majority of primary and secondary education establishments.
Agora Book Club
e-publishing books and writings on alternatives in education
The Agora Book Club is a ‘subscriber only’ www based portal for electronic publications, electronic publishing references, services and links specifically relating to on-line education and progressive educational philosophy.
Publications are available as downloadable files in all the e-book formats, OEB, Print on Demand (POD), HTML, and Text documents.
The web site will provide a platform for debate and annotation on the books available through the book club by way of electronic bulletin boards.
ABC will act as an e-publisher for new authors, and as agent for the manufacture and distribution of electronic versions of existing works.
Art Sponsorship Coordination
Bringing together arts and business
Art Sponsorship Co-ordination is a data base for the sponsorship requirements of artists, and the availability and possibilities of sponsorship from the business sector.
Are you a company looking for someone who wants
that 2,000 litres of outdated butter milk?
Or someone to take away those space wasting bullet proof glass off cuts?
Are you an artist looking for any amount of old black typewriters or 200,000
old lemonade bottles for a sculpture?
The [a:sk] data base is a solution...
[a:sk] offers artists the possibility to provide bibliographies and details
of their projects and requirements, and companies to outline their procedures
and contacts for sponsorship applications and what might be available.
[a:sk] is not an agent nor will act in the role of an agency.
The data bank is provided as a communications platform and a resource.
Artists and businesses can access and contribute to the data base through
www.first-ask.de. This allows the possibility of constantly updated information
on what is available as sponsorship, and what is requiring sponsorship.
As always, many thanks to UKHOSTS for the continued sponsorship of thebluecrane.com