Not for Profit Educational Activities
Chalk Mountain’s educational mission is to influence thinking and practice so that more attention is paid to the lifewide nature of our development as whole people. Chalk Mountain is passionate about developing a lifewide concept of education as a means of developing capability for life - including the creative capability we need for a meaningful and fulfilled life.
Chalk Mountain principals have been involved in the development of a lifewide concept of learning and personal development.
Most people are familiar with the idea of lifelong learning to represent an individual’s learning and development throughout the whole of their life-span. But the complementary concept of 'lifewideness,' the learning and development that occurs more or less contemporaneously in multiple and varied places and situations throughout an individual's life course, is less familiar. But it is the lifewide dimension of living, learning and developing that we actually notice and participate in every day.
Lifewideness is a simple idea. It recognises that most people in their lives no matter what their age or circumstances simultaneously inhabit a number of different spaces - like work or education, running a home, being a member of a family, being involved in a club or society, travelling and taking holidays and looking after themselves mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Chalk Mountain’s educational mission is to influence thinking and practice so that more attention is paid to the lifewide nature of our development as whole people.
Included in our voluntary and low cost activities are:
- Maintenance and continued development of wikis hosting resources to support the exchange of information and development of ideas and practices:
- Lifewide Learning and Development wiki
- Learning to be Professional through a Higher Education wiki
- Imaginative Curriculum Network wiki
- Offers of presentations and workshops to schools, colleges and universities
- Offers of working with interested partners to adapt the concept to their educational settings
Learning to be Professional through a Higher Education wiki
Imaginative Curriculum Network wiki