9th International SEAL Conference
The King's School Canterbury, Kent, UK
29 March - 1/2 April 2001
'Opening Minds'
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9th International SEAL Conference The King's School Canterbury, Kent, UK 29 March - 1/2 April 2001 'Opening Minds' |
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Learning and the New Science - SEAL's next leap forward
At the next SEAL Conference we will be looking forward to what comes next in the world of learning. Central to the conference will be the exploration of a unitary concept of organic intelligence, developing the links between new science, new medicine, ecology, music and learning. The aim of the Conference is to explore the scientific framework for SEAL's long-held vision of holistic learning. In other words to ping science into the heart of our enterprise.
Physics, which has in the past confined its exploration of the world to the quantifiable and mathematizable, has had to adapt to the quantum dimension, where causality functions differently and relationships are holistic. Quantum mechanics itself is now being reinterpreted in terms of deterministic chaos and emergence. Within this context, new medical approaches build on the pain's own organic intelligence to find more effective ways of activating the organism to regulate its own balance.
Ecologists agree that we have reached the limits of a science of quantities, prediction and control, and are now inclined to follow Goethe's approach to morphology - a coherent unfolding of the intrinsic order of the organism.
The practical application of this organic view to learning means that the fundamental criterion for curriculum design is to help the organism function at its best.
