More Thoughts on Process, Renewable Energy, and Sustainable Development
LeRoy Harvey's Masters Thesis is an
attempt to draw connections between sustainability and the belief systems,
learning approaches, and decision-making processes that will be helpful (if not
necessary) in a transition to a peaceful and ecologically viable planet.
He has attempted to include some of these during this term. The table below is a
draft comparing old and new ways. This is over-simplified and your
comments are welcome.
| old | new |
| expert model | experts and novices as co-learners |
| teacher-centered | learner-centered |
| debate | dialogue |
| win-lose | win-win |
| either or | both-and |
| parts | whole |
| things | relationships |
| classroom-centered | community-centered |
| one career/employer | many careers/employers |
| quantity | quality |
| pre-planned | emergent |
| Newtonian, mechanistic | New science,
relativity, chaos theory, unified field theory |