Nordic Integral Education

(THIS SITE IS NOW TRANSFERRING TO http://nordicintegral.thoughtlead.com/ )In these podcasts I inquire into the moral, ethical, philosophical and spiritual context fundamental to leadership in education today and tomorrow - from preschool and up - highlighting case studies from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, USA, Canada, Australia and UK. These calls are inspired by the model IT'S YOUR CHOICE! Important themes on the podcasts and Tuesday Conference Calls on Education are: What does it mean to be a teacher/leader in our time in history? What role can education play as a vehicle for catalyzing development at the level of consciousness and culture both in and outside of a classroom? What does the expression of higher and deeper values and expressions of inclusiveness, meaning and purpose look like between teachers and students? THIS SITE IS NOW TRANSFERRING TO http://nordicintegral.thoughtlead.com/

Sunday, May 27, 2007

The leadership pyramid

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In this episode Nick Drummond and Mats Edin discuss a model they use with teachers and school leaders called the Leadership Pyramid.

The model is inspired by integral philosopher Ken Wilber and describes the relationship between Depth and Span. Depth refers to verticality or levels of development in human consciousness: eg. from egocentric, to group-centric, to worldcentric to kosmocentric.

Span is show on the horizontal axis and refers to the number of individuals and groups at each level. The diagram shows that the number of individuals and groups decreases as depth increases.

In the middle of the pyramid they point out a barrier to development, which is responsible for the choas in many schools. This position expresses the perspective: Don’t judge! Everything is relative!

When teachers and school leaders move from the middle to the top of the pyramid then all levels become aligned and the whole class is participating on their developmental edge.

See http://nick-nie.zaadz.com/blog for a more detailed description.
See http://www.nordicintegral.com/education.html to download the model.

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

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Introduction to the three-step model

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Nick Drummond talks with psychologist Mats Edin about the three-step model, which is used for creating more positive and more responsible behaviour in individuals and groups

Step 1: Give attention to positive behaviour.
Strengthen and reward the behaviour that you want to see.

Step 2: Ignore negative behaviour.
Ignore the behaviour that you don’t want to see.

Step 3: Stop what has to be stopped.
You do what has to be done to stop a behaviour that must be stopped.

NB: Each of the steps in the three steps can also be found in the widely accepted and evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). What is new is that we introduce a perspective to each of the steps that shines light on our ability to take absolute responsibility for our behaviour and the choices we are making, and to do so immediately.

See http://nick-nie.zaadz.com/blog for a more detailed description.
See http://www.nordicintegral.com/education.html to download the model.

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

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Monday, May 21, 2007

Introduction to the model "It's your choice!"

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Nick Drummond talks with psychologist and co-author Mats Edin and gives an introduction to the model "It's your choice!" used in education.

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Monday, May 21, 2007

Introduction to our book "Order and structure in the school: one step on the path to dynamic harmony in the classroom"

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Nick Drummond talks with psychologist and co-author Mats Edin about their book "Order and structure in the school: one step on the path to dynamic harmony in the classroom" (Ordning och reda i skolan - ett steg på vägen mot dynamik och harmoni i klassrummet). The book was published in Sweden in May 2006.

In this discussion Mats and Nick give an overview and describe the use of Clare Graves model Spiral Dynamics, Kohlberg and Gilligan’s model of moral development as well as using Developmental Scales as a tool for objectively describing levels of maturity.

The book also introduces the model It's Your Choice! which makes development and transformation from chaos to dynamic harmony an immediate possibility in every classroom and school.

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Introduction: Experiences from Sweden in using an evolutionary perspective in education

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Nick Drummond talks with psychologist Mats Edin to give an introduction to the work they are doing in introducing Integral Education in Sweden.

They explain why the philosophy of evolutionary enlightenment (developed by Andrew Cohen) has inspired them to confront "Egalitarian Collectivism" by giving children (and adults!) meaning and purpose.

Egalitarian collectivism can be described as a position towards values in a culture where every perspective is treated as equal. From this position we deny hierarchy and differences in levels of development, nobody’s truth or perspective is better than anyone else’s. Everyone is right and it’s considered politically incorrect to judge anyone, because NOBODY tells ME what to do! When this position takes hold in a culture - even in a classroom - we deny all forms of hierarchy and thus the possibility of further development.

When a culture treats all perspectives as equal, human development towards higher levels of maturity (i.e. higher than egocentrism) becomes impossible and rampant narcissism takes over. Instead of experiencing a classroom environment where the atmosphere is constantly developing, we experience chaos or at best stagnation.

Instead of helping kids mature, EVERYONE wants to be a kid. The result is a culture that doesn’t care about itself, the planet or the future of its children.

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

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Introduction

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Introduction to Nick Drummond, leadership trainer and consultant for schools and educational institutions in Sweden.

Nick says that one of his goals is to rescue education from what Don Beck calls Egalitarian Collectivism, where every perspective is treated as equally valid and nobody’s truth or perspective is better than anyone else’s. When this happens, development stops.

Nick presents a simple model of human development to better understand the predicament faced by education in Sweden. He outlines four levels of human maturity (1. Egocentric, 2. Group/ethnocentric, 3. Worldcentric and 4. Kosmocentric) and explains that the Swedish culture prevents children and youth from actively developing up from egocentrism.

For more information see: http://www.nordicintegral.com email: nick.drummond@nordicintegral.com

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Friday, May 11, 2007