Thank you for this wonderful post Willie. You bring up various significant points and the one that stood out to me the most was the fact that disciplines cannot and should not exist without the other and yet there are numerous disparities. I am working on a research project with more than five people from various different disciplines and seeing how we all approach the same material with different perspectives is fascinating. What is even more fascinating than that is that if I name someone from the field of Psychology, Social Work or Counseling they counter it with a theorist from their fields…everyone saying the same thing but under different names and different disciplines. It is almost like the disciplines are walking in a straight line alongside each other but never converging. How disappointing?! I wonder if there is a way to make that line turn into a circle?!

Thank you for your post! While reading your thoughts I connected it to Gestalt Psychology which talks about assessing or looking at an individual with a lens that is assumes that they are more than the sum of their parts…a whole person. So if in understanding a person we have to consider all their parts and assume something else at work as well (that we cannot see) then why do educational institutions tend to educate parts of us?! Why not educate the whole person. Carrie’s thought also made me think that futuristic education may be interdisciplinary and that just may be the simplistic answer to it all.

Thank you for your post! This course provides many dots and we need to find the appropriate dots and connect them.

Thank you for your post. Not only students, but also people who have jobs love break. the phenomenon that students love break doesn’t mean students hate school. Students may hate classes which are boring or useless in the future, but this can be solved by teachers or school officers.

Exactly! And that comes from being a real person – being genuine and authentic…safe spaces don’t get created or feel natural if the person creating them is not being authentic.

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Boom! This is an amazing one! I’ve just decided that I will be adding new ideas to the list as they come in.

Thank you!

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Done! I love that one!

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Thank you for sharing the example. If one to one teaching is available to all students, teachers can care about everyone’s needs. But for a course with many students, especially for large course, it is difficult for personalized teaching. Teachers should adapt their teaching strategies and apply various teaching methods.

This power of vulnerability is made possible by making safe spaces for students so that they feel comfortable sharing.

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Gary,

Could this list also include developing one’s view of the world and their perceived place in it?

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