Reconsidering the Chicago Group’s Education 2000: A Holistic Perspective Vision (1990) through the Lens of Curriculum Reconceptualisation and Reconstructionism
Abstract
In 1989 a group of progressive educators and thinkers met to organise a gathering, that took place in June 1990, called Exploring a Common Vision for Holistic Education Conference. The 1990 gathering comprised eighty international holistic educators and they met in Chicago, Illinois. Out of this gathering came The Chicago Statement on Education which was widely disseminated around the world by Gang and others. The Chicago Statement was soon expanded and entitled EDUCATION 2000: A Holistic Perspective. It came to my attention in 1997 when I was just starting to work in adult and vocational education in Australia. I discovered it through an e-book entitled Holistic education: Principles, perspectives and practices, a book of readings based on Education 2000: A holistic perspective, (Flake, 1998) first published in 1993. Although the Chicago gathering was 32 years ago and it’s been 25 years since I first became aware of it and the notion of holistic education, and the possibilities for holistic curriculum, it has informed my philosophy and pedagogy ever since. In this paper I will explore the full EDUCATION 2000: A Holistic Perspective statement including the underpinning principles and these working assumptions through the lens of curriculum reconceptualisation and reconstructionism. I will then consider this material in relation to the potentialities for curriculum development.
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Location
Room 106
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Recommended Citation
Collister, Rupert C. PhD, "Reconsidering the Chicago Group’s Education 2000: A Holistic Perspective Vision (1990) through the Lens of
Curriculum Reconceptualisation and Reconstructionism" (2022). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 39.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2022/2022/39
Reconsidering the Chicago Group’s Education 2000: A Holistic Perspective Vision (1990) through the Lens of Curriculum Reconceptualisation and Reconstructionism
Room 106
In 1989 a group of progressive educators and thinkers met to organise a gathering, that took place in June 1990, called Exploring a Common Vision for Holistic Education Conference. The 1990 gathering comprised eighty international holistic educators and they met in Chicago, Illinois. Out of this gathering came The Chicago Statement on Education which was widely disseminated around the world by Gang and others. The Chicago Statement was soon expanded and entitled EDUCATION 2000: A Holistic Perspective. It came to my attention in 1997 when I was just starting to work in adult and vocational education in Australia. I discovered it through an e-book entitled Holistic education: Principles, perspectives and practices, a book of readings based on Education 2000: A holistic perspective, (Flake, 1998) first published in 1993. Although the Chicago gathering was 32 years ago and it’s been 25 years since I first became aware of it and the notion of holistic education, and the possibilities for holistic curriculum, it has informed my philosophy and pedagogy ever since. In this paper I will explore the full EDUCATION 2000: A Holistic Perspective statement including the underpinning principles and these working assumptions through the lens of curriculum reconceptualisation and reconstructionism. I will then consider this material in relation to the potentialities for curriculum development.
