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 * =modern (1500-1950)= || =post-modern (1950-2000)= || =integral (2000-Present)= ||
 * mechanistic || idealistic ||  ||
 * rational || dreamer ||  ||
 * empirical || phenomenological ||  ||
 * concrete ||  ||   ||
 * knowledge driven || material driven || spiritually driven ||
 * conservative ||  ||   ||
 * fixed self || evolving self ||  ||
 * ego-centric || socio-centric || accepting ||
 * ethnocentric || patchwork || universal ||
 * looks to authority || questions authority ||  ||
 * social norms || individual rights ||  ||
 * simple || complex || unified ||
 * external validation || internal validation || universal validation ||
 * materialism || deconstruction ||  ||
 * discipline || Tension || environmental awareness ||
 * Creativity || Ecology || connection/compassion ||
 * **__Primary Focus__: "//Strategic//"** || consideration of others || Universe energy ||
 * **__World-centric__: Exists in the world of "What if?"** || reconceptualization || working body and soul ||
 * **Consumerism** || Political issues || Morality and responsibility ||
 * **Awakening pragmatics** || Theology || spirituality awareness ||
 * **Independence** || community cooperation || **__Primary Focus__: "Natural Systems, Self-principle, & Knowledge"** ||
 * **Seeking self to higher authority** || **__Primary Focus__: "Consensual"** || **__Interior transformation of adults__ - letting go of ego** ||
 * **Competition** || **__Energy__: God is an everywhere Energy** || ==diversity consciousness, team work, theology== ||
 * * ==Thecnology==
 * ==Science==
 * ==reason== || * **Affiliation**
 * **Sustainability**
 * **Collaboration**
 * **Fulfillment** || ==Everything has a value and we should see value==

in survival
|| here is the beginning of basic skeleton. I feel that once this is outlined, then it'll be much easier to creative a narrative. If anyone wants to take this in another direction or create another method of developing this process, please do so and I'll contribute happily. = framework = Process for curriculum development:
 * || ==Technology our enemy== || ==do not force people to be what they are not== ||
 * || ==Problem is in== || ==No judgment== ||
 * ||  || ==No worry about the right way, just looking for the right one== ||
 * ||  || ==flexibility and spontaneity== ||
 * ||  || ==Making life easier== ||
 * ||  || ==Service for love== ||
 * ||  || ==Synergy== ||

In order to break the cycle of "modern" teaching paradigm, intervention must happen at three different levels: teacher preparation, community education & involvement, pedagogy. It must happen at all three levels because they are all interrelated, and interdependent.

Teacher preparation: must be progressive in nature and move away from traditional ideas of teacher as authoritative figure, and as top of a hierarchical structure. Attract higher order thinkers into teaching field by offering more autonomy, better pay, better working conditions.

Community education & involvement: demonstrate alternative education models, evolve concept of "school", valid community needs assessment, interaction of school with community, adult education (formal and fun stuff too).

Pedagogy: Abandon the corporate textbook and curriculum, move towards project-based curriculum, emphasis on community interaction at global and local level, establish basic skills (reading, writing, research, mathematics) as means to an end (not as measurable product), portfolios, and peer review evaluations

Teacher Education

what are the aims & goals in presenting to establish a rationale for a new curriculum for an emerging era:
 * 1) "shrinking planet"
 * 2) greater interconnectivity through communication technology
 * 3) easier travel
 * 4) merging cultures, ideologies,
 * 5) open-ness to "others"
 * 6) change in traditional occupations and careers
 * 7) global markets
 * 8) cross-cultural markets
 * 9) need for cooperative idea exchange and innovation
 * 10) resource management
 * 11) population growth
 * 12) resource depletion
 * 13) environmental degradation
 * 14) access to food
 * 15) access to water
 * 16) political relations
 * 17) practice dialogue
 * 18) empathy for others
 * 19) change in values (ie. "we" in place of "me")
 * 20) student preparation
 * 21) cooperative versus competitive
 * 22) holistic inter-related understanding of "disciplines"
 * 23) awareness of self (consciousness)
 * 24) awareness of self within community
 * 25) critical thinking and problem-solving skills
 * 26) cultural awareness
 * 27) non-passive empowered
 * 28) practice democracy and realization of voice

Aims & Goals this part could be a narrative of: Vision To provide v a stimulating learning environment with a technological access , and orientation across the whole curriculum, which maximizes individual potential and ensures students of all ability levels are well equipped to meet the challenges of education, work and lives. v a curriculum that promotes intellectual curiosity, creative thinking, ﻿﻿critical thinking, self-awareness, respect,  and that challenges students to reach their full potential. v students the opportunity and skills for Problem Based learning, with a focus in Social diversity, Environmental activism, and apply their knowledge and skills  in order to function independently in a cooperative context  and to contribute to our global society. v Provide a curriculum that is dedicated to Scientific and mathematical problem solving as well as social, cultural, artistic, philosophical, and literary . v Focus is placed on character development which incorporates respect, social skills, and moral integrity into academic concepts an d (social contexts) v High levels of achievement are accomplished through measurable academic standards aligned with the major instructional goals (this might be too close to "modern" thinking.  [|Education And The Future of Technology]
 * 1) teacher preparation
 * 2) intervene in the cyclical nature of teacher education
 * 3) initially attract progressive higher-order thinkers
 * 4) provide autonomy & creative freedom
 * 5) link with universities & progressive think-tanks
 * 6) student preparation
 * 7) (see student preparation section above)
 * 8) problem-based education
 * 9) relevant education
 * 10) holistic understanding of disciplines