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​Process Education

We invite you to join a movement
​and create a better world...

Lynn De Jonghe
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Underlying Principles of Process Education

  • All life deserves respect. Everything is connected; nothing in nature stands alone.
  • Thinking and feeling are connected; mind and body are not separate entities; aesthetic wisdom and rational inquiry are complementary.
  • There is a profound relationship between creativity, beauty, and life.
  • Learning begins by experiencing the presence of the world and being affected by it.
  • Happiness involves sharing experience with others and responding in harmony to these relationships. Harmony includes differences as well as similarities.
  • Change is an ongoing component of reality; nothing ever stays the same. The process of reality is creative, emergent, evolutionary, and social.


Practices for all Ages

With these fundamentals in mind, we seek to celebrate educational programs in which learning is an active process–a lifelong adventure of heart, mind and body.

Programs that begin in the romance of discovery and get certain basics right by
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  • Creating a climate of care and respect
  • Helping students learn to cooperate and collaborate
  • Encouraging curiosity and playfulness
  • Exploring the wonder of glimpses of beauty
  • Engaging students in learning by doing
  • Experiencing the joy of genuine success


Programs that develop precision and mastery by
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  • Investigating real-life projects
  • Integrating learning across disciplines
  • Inquiring in depth according the students’ interest and talents
  • Persisting in questioning and practicing
  • Encouraging problem finding as well as problem solving
  • Developing modes of artistic creativity

Programs that open out to make a positive difference in the world by

  • Educating for justice
  • Working toward ecological civilization
  • Facing challenges as opportunities
  • Seeking harmony of space, nature and spirit
  • Building consensus and community
  • Reaching out to different perspectives, backgrounds, and ages


A Worldview for the Principles
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