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Tags: Education, Self-Organization / Compelxity, Lang:en
Summary
Ron Miller has been involved with diverse educational
alternatives for more than 25 years, as a teacher, researcher,
activist, editor and author. In The Self-Organizing Revolution,
he reflects deeply on his experiences and observations. He
identifies five core principles that are shared by various
groups of educational dissidents, and explains how a grassroots
movement for educational transformation, grounded in these
principles, is spontaneously emerging. The Self-Organizing
Revolution explores the transition from the modern institution
of mass schooling to a postmodern network of diverse learning
options available to all young people. Miller wrestles with the
philosophical, moral, and political questions that arise with
the radical proposition that public schooling as we know it has
become obsolete. He cautions against simplistic models of
privatization and lays out an egalitarian, democratic, socially
responsible program of decentralized education. This book is a
manifesto for the educational alternatives movement.
Transcending the specific methodologies used by different
educational approaches, and bridging the divide between
conventional "liberal" and "conservative" educational policies,
Miller offers a unique, powerful vision of educational
transformation. ** Ron Miller is the chair of the Religion Department at Lake
Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he has taught
for thirty years, and cofounder of Common Ground, an adult
education group for interfaith religious study and dialogue
since 1975. Miller is the author of many books and articles,
including The Gospel of Thomas: A Guidebook for Spiritual
Practice, named one of Spirituality & Health's 50 Best
Spiritual Books of the year; The Hidden Gospel of Matthew:
Annotated & Explained and Healing the Jewish-Christian
Rift: Growing Beyond Our Wounded History (all SkyLight Paths).
His website is www.ronmillersworld.org.About the Author