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{{toplink|url=http://www.openconnections.org|name=openconnections.org}}[[File:OpenConnections.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Campus view of Open Connections.]]<blockquote>''Freedom to Learn and Create''</blockquote> | {{toplink|url=http://www.openconnections.org|name=openconnections.org}}[[File:OpenConnections.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Campus view of Open Connections.]]<blockquote>''Freedom to Learn and Create''</blockquote> | ||
At Open Connections we engage in a wide variety of techniques to ensure that young people have the freedom to learn and create. | At '''Open Connections''' we engage in a wide variety of techniques '''to ensure that young people have the freedom to learn and create'''. | ||
*Avoidance of questions with hidden agendas. | *Avoidance of questions with hidden agendas. | ||
*Emphasis on Real Work versus make-work. | *Emphasis on Real Work versus make-work. | ||
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<br>''Notes:'' The above descriptive information came from the organization's [http://www.openconnections.org/what-we-believe/the-oc-process The OC Process] page. Open Connections is located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. | <br>''Notes:'' The above descriptive information came from the organization's [http://www.openconnections.org/what-we-believe/the-oc-process The OC Process] page. Open Connections is located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. | ||
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*Brochure: [http://www.openconnections.org/uploads/files/455760464707867386-1819-program-brochure-web-revb.pdf Open Connections 2018-2019] (PDF) | |||
*Publication: [http://www.openconnections.org/uploads/files/668168500904742111-ocmag-65-2018-e-version.pdf Open Connections Magazine Spring 2018] (PDF) | |||
*More: [http://www.openconnections.org/apply/virtual-tour Virtual Tour] | |||
*Facebook: [http://www.facebook.com/openconnectionseducation openconnectionseducation] | |||
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[[Category:Serves-Children]] [[Category:Serves-Children_and_Youth]] [[Category:Serves-Youth]] | |||
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Revision as of 02:45, 27 February 2018
Freedom to Learn and Create
At Open Connections we engage in a wide variety of techniques to ensure that young people have the freedom to learn and create.
- Avoidance of questions with hidden agendas.
- Emphasis on Real Work versus make-work.
- Reliance on experiential, hands-on learning.
- Development of Process Consciousness (how a process impacts on the quality of content/output, for better or for worse).
- Treatment of all people as colleagues (minus the struggles of hierarchies).
- Celebration of each other's growth.
- Offer of developmentally appropriate opportunities for young people to contribute to the growth of Open Connections.
- Encouragement of the use of imagination and wishfulness as components of Flexible Thinking.
- Emphasis on collaboration and synergy (vs. competition and negativity).
- Treatment of adversity as opportunity.
- Finding the resources to achieve goals.
Notes: The above descriptive information came from the organization's The OC Process page. Open Connections is located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
Info
- Brochure: Open Connections 2018-2019 (PDF)
- Publication: Open Connections Magazine Spring 2018 (PDF)
- More: Virtual Tour
- Facebook: openconnectionseducation