The diversity of social action - of people's desire to provide a helping hand - never ceases to amaze.

 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/camera_rwanda/317022022/


"Sisters of Rwanda is a non-profit organization focused on women who make their living as a commercial sex worker, and/or have been sexually abused. Our purpose is to provide these vulnerable girls with a sustainable income and life/business skills that will ensure a better quality of life for them and their families."

http://www.sistersofrwanda.org/

Good schools find ways for their children to gain meaningful experience through helping others locally and further afield.

SunWALK is a framework to help you articulate your model of (holistic) education & evaluate others.

My own work, using the SunWALK framework suggests

a spiritualizing (or humanizing) pedagogy of human education as:

the storied development of meaning, which is constructed, and de-constructed, physically

mentally and spiritually, through

Wise & Willing Action, via Loving and Knowing – developed in Community, through

the ‘Dialectical Spiritualization’ of Caring,

Creativity & Criticality processes, all undertaken in the light of the ‘Sun’ of chosen

higher-order values and beliefs, using best

available, appropriate content.

SEE http://www.sunwalk.org.uk/_sgg/mu_1.htm

What then is the real difference between the 'holistically minded teacher/practitioner'

and the 'non holistically-minded teacher/practitioner'?

After thinking about this for the last 14 years my best answer to date is that;

the holistically minded practitioner is trying to do each particular thing, theoretical and practical,

with consciousness of connections with, and between, all pertinent contexts - environmental

context, social justice context etc. - right up to and including some sense of the Whole.

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