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RVML Event Center's Calendar of Events 25 March 2008, Tuesday |
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Lecture: Introduction to Gaia University and "Action Learning"
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
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Lecture: Introduction to Gaia University and "Action Learning"By Shaktari Belew
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome
Presentation Description:
Gaia University offers a unique approach to higher learning by offering students (called Associates) access to accredited Bachelors and Masters degrees and Graduate Diplomas whilst the Associate is actively engaged in self and planetary transformation. Linking your ideals with self-directed practical experience, you act as a world changer, by working for local and global sustainability and regeneration, justice and peace.
Our self-directed action learning methodology (see below) enables you to study locally, at work or on project, in your own language, supported by Gaia University's Regional Organizers, and a worldwide network of learning providers, tutors and mentors.
No longer do you have to choose between earning a living and studying. With action learning your work and your projects become your places of study.
What is Action learning? It is not certain when the term was first used, but Dr. Reg Revans of England is widely credited as the man who developed the action learning methodology for training managers.
In the 1930s he had worked as a member of Ernest Rutherford's research team, at the Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge. This gave Revans the impetus to develop his ideas on action learning. Each week Rutherford would gather together his team - which consisted of more than a dozen future Nobel Laureates - and encourage them to question their own knowledge and to collaborate on developing fresh ideas.
In 1935, Revans become director of education at Essex County Council. While there, a colleague asked him to look at the high level of staff turnover among nurses in hospitals. Why did so many leave after training? His investigations revealed the main reason for dissatisfaction among newly qualified nurses: the culture in which they worked did nothing to encourage them.
Revans went on to become the first professor of business at the University of Manchester, where he worked until 1965. Revans' vision was of practical business people learning from each other, creating their own resources, identifying their own problems and forming their own solutions. This was not how most academics saw it.
Revans' next big challenge was Belgium. He headed the inter-university project, which had the task of moving the small kingdom up from the bottom of the organization for economic co-operation and development league, where it had languished for several years. Traditional measures had been tried but had failed. Under Revans'
stewardship, five Belgian universities and 23 of the country's largest business organizations worked together to find a solution to the national malaise. This collective approach succeeded in putting Belgium's industrial productivity growth rate, at 102 per cent, ahead of the US, Germany and Japan between 1971 and 1981.
HISTORY: Gaia U. has been designed from the joint threads of the International Management Centers Association which has been offering action learning based business programs since 1982 and the Permaculture Diploma WorkNet, designed by Gaia U. founder Andy Langford which has been offering action learning Applied Permaculture Diplomas since 1993.
It was at a 2004 meeting at Findhorn Ecovillage that Andy Langford and Liora Adler met and began to envision the expansion of the Permaculture Diploma WorkNet project into a global learning community that would include all of the curricula of the movements in which they are active. The founders of Gaia University have had extensive involvement with the ecovillage, permaculture, bioregional, consensus, facilitation and eco-health social change activities for the past 30 years. These movements are part of a long history of pioneer ecological and social justice thinking reaching well back through the 1930's, the 1890's and further to the 1600's.
A quite special synchronicity opened the accreditation pathway and the current Gaia University was born. Gaia University was incorporated in Colorado, USA, in October of 2004 as a non-profit corporation.
Along with offering leading-edge, passion-led, action learning degree paths that fully support world changers/social artists creating innovative sustainable solutions, Gaia U is committed to making higher education both accessible and affordable.
Join us to see if Gaia University and Action Learning are right for you!
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TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES FORMAT: 90-120-minute lecture presentation including break and Q&A period. All events conclude promptly at 9:00pm.
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