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Philosophy of Learning & Teaching

To me living means being in a constant change of state, and the same is true for learning. When people learn, their neural constellations are re-organized. Living and learning then means developing through transformation. Changing that interior landscape then naturally leads to creating, since humans are purpose-seeking, social creatures who use their hearts, heads, and hands to make and communicate — exchanging themselves with others in the process of emergence. Based on these principles I approach education by designing and facilitating transformational change for self and others through collaborative creative engagement. Although I personally prefer experiential learning to other modalities, as an interculturalist I believe in addressing multiple learning styles and teaching around the Kolb Wheel and across all of Gardner’s Intelligences. Politically speaking, I feel drawn to Paulo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy and John Dewey’s Progressive Pedagogy. I am well versed in concepts of Andragogy and some other, lesser known teaching and learning theories, such as Apithagogy (generative dynamics of wellbeing) and Pandragogy (life-long learning toward sustainable futures). I feel deeply rooted in the system sciences, and am interested, in particular, in living (Fritjof Capra) and evolutionary (Ervin Laszlo) systems philosophies.