December 2010
Two reasons to celebrate just landed in my inbox.
Two reasons to celebrate just landed in my inbox.
The first is an e-book written by Fellner Gábor:
Congratulations Gábor, I have not read it all yet, but I will say more in another posting when I have.
The second reason is that somewhere or other, possibly Maryland, in the USA, the Prince George's Public Schools have decided to integrate Conductive Education in their system after a successful pilot scheme that took place during the last school year:
If anyone discovers more about this please inform me. I have found no more information than this one thing on Facebook that is a year old now.
This news was posted more cautiously at the URL below, 18 months ago and I think discussed on the blogosphere because of the need for successful applicants to take several exams before the work could begin.
I love the dragon.
ReplyDeleteAnd I salute Gabor for his initiative (though like you I have still to read his piece, and no doubt I will too).
As for that CE scheme in Maryland I am afraid that I have to disappoint you. You have't heard of this particular project for a year because it seems to have collapsed. The reason for the collapse was that the project was unable to find a conductor ready (or able) to take on the responsibility required.
If you look down to the bottom of the Facebook item that you refer to, you will see a little note to indicate that the item comes from a year ago.
A sad tale. Huge hope and hard work went into this project by the Sixten Foundation. Had it come off it would have been a step forward for CE in the US it would have been a step change in the development of CE in that country.
MH talked about 'the human factor in CE' How right she was!
That was quick!
ReplyDeleteI was just adding to my posting at the same time as you were commenting.
I am sure that there was a discussion somewhere on the blogosphere at the time about this and I was searching your blog for it.
Do you remember?
Yes, as you say it would have been good for CE USA. A change in the direction a step away from therapy maybe.
Susie
Yes, quick, I need a nap!
ReplyDeleteHere are the search results for two critical key words in this case
http://www.conductive-world.info/search?q=sixten
http://www.conductive-world.info/search?q=kurz
Taken together, the threads revealed by these searches offer quite a bit of the history and some of the critical issues around this tale. My own feeling at the time was that Robert Kurz was not well advised on the capabilities/aspirations of the conductors potentially available to him in the US. It will be interesting to see what is done to find a way around this problem should anyone ever attain the opportunity that Robert engineered. Or perhaps it will prove insoluable. If so, then farewell the 'teacher-conductor'.
The search engine on Conductive World is at the top left of the page, a small blank box followed by a mignifing glass, as on all Blogger blogs. I am currently wondering how I might make the content of Conductive World more easily accessible to people seeking information. Wetware problem again?
KBO,
Andrew.
Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think "wetware problem again" is probably right. Wet and wampy my mum used to say. Writing blogs is about my limit and recovering the dots on my map, I managed that too!
And there on your blog links I found the link to your Facebook dialogues too, but not surprisingly I could not get there on Facebook. I think you were thinking ahead at the time and copied most of the discussion from Facebook into one or more of the postings below.
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/05/careless-talk-cost-i-should-take-more.html
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/06/sixtens-saga-ii.html
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/06/conductor-supply-in-north-america.html
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1540593482
Thanks again, it makes interesting reading.