Thursday, Jun 14, 2007

Spiral Dynamics [*] and education: The desperate need to transcend “Green” Swedish pedagogy

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In this episode Nick Drummond and Mats Edin discuss the desperate need for headmasters and teachers in Sweden to transcend 40 years of being stuck in the unhealthy "Green" egalitarian (every perspective is equal) swamp.

“Green” Swedish pedagogy is preventing kids from moving into the "Blue" system and further along the Spiral. "Red" is romanticised by "Green" as being fully mature.

From "Greens" perspective "Blue" is not a necessary system through which an individual centred in "Red" has to pass through. Because from “Greens” perspective nobody has the authority to tell anybody else what to do!! Edin and Drummond see very few Swedish teachers being able to create a healthy "Blue" teaching environment, while those few teachers who are able to express strong healthy "Red" and "Blue" are looked down upon by their colleagues for lacking empathy, for being too rigid and authoritarian and for not showing any love and compassion. When “Green” has power it is politically incorrect to judge, to push, to demand, to insist on development, and to say that maturity is vitally important. "Green" says: “Are you valuing people!? Are you saying that some people are better than other people!?"

When "Blue" morality is not recognized as being a necessary system that EVERYBODY has to pass though, then headmasters and teachers who are centred in "Green" sanction students centred in "Red" – from preschool age and up - to do whatever they feel like doing, whenever they feel like doing it, without anybody having to take any responsibility for the results.

Are you interested to learn more about applying this perspective in education? Then please contact us: http://www.nordicintegral.com email: nick.drummond@nordicintegral.com

* See http://www.spiraldynamics.net

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