Re: more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Racheli&John (jnpalmeattglobal.net) | |
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:47:01 -0600 (MDT) |
** Reply to note from "Ken Collerman" <kcollerm [at] windsong.bc.ca> Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:53:42 -0700 >From Racheli Hi Ken, I agree. The late John Holt wrote somewhere that there is no "unstructured" learning. All learning has structure - and the difference is between whether the structure is explicit, or not. I think it's the same here. The advantage of having explicit structure/policies is that it allows debate. It also allows measuring behavior and actions in relation to a given set of rules. On the other hand, when the rules are implicit, it's not clear what they are, what they should be, how they can be changed. This leads to ambiguity which serves best the most domineering types. R. > At Windsong we have a small number of members who do not like written > policies or agreements of any kind. The two reasons I've heard for not > having policies (or agreements) are: > > 1) Policies are created by people who just want to have control over others. > > 2) We don't need policies because we can just use common sense. > > We have only 7 policies, 5 years after moving in. > > The result, as I see it, has been a lot of confusion and a minority taking > control by making decisions, using their "common sense". Windsong is a > great place to live, however, I think we've lost some of our democracy. _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness C2pattee, July 11 2001
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Re: more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness Ken Collerman, July 13 2001
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Re: more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness Sharon Villines, July 13 2001
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Re: more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness Sharon Villines, July 13 2001
- Re: more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness Racheli&John, July 13 2001
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Re: more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness Ken Collerman, July 13 2001
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more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness C2pattee, July 17 2001
- Re: more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness Sharon Villines, July 17 2001
- RE: more on The Tyranny of Structurelessness Eileen McCourt, July 17 2001
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