| Draper Kauffman worked for a think tank in the 1970s and became concerned about the inability of the high level people employing his services to imagine a future materially different then the one they were already living in. The prevailing attitude was “like today only more so.” Draper, a physicist, when back to school and received a degree in education and subsequently wrote a book in 1976 called Teaching the Future. He visited Gail at the Learning exchange and that is where both of us met him. Draper organized his curriculum in six categories: Access to Information, Thinking Clearly, Communicating Effectively, Understanding man’s Environment, Understanding Men and Society and Personal Competence. Within these he, outline 63 sub-categories. |
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| Gail and I added to Draper’s Curriculum in 1978 and 1981 and then the KnowledgeWorks Consortium, which Gail was a part of added material in 1991. Changes to the original six categories included additional sub-categories (including the addition of key physical skills) and changing the gender specific terms. We added two major categories: Design and Planning (based on my experience and Bucky Fuller’s Anticipatory Design Science concept) and Art, Aesthetics and the Human Spirit. |
| We have used this curriculum to select knowledge objects for designShop® events, 7 Domains™ workshops, Weak Signal Research™ and our own personal study for 30 years and it has stood up well. One of our basic premises in regards the use of this curriculum which is distinct from common practices is that we believe that it should be employed in all grades from the beginning and throughout life. Details and difficultly may change with age and interests yet basic competency in all of these areas is a minimum foundation for a free and creative 21st Century citizen capable of effectively participating in the future of humanity. The presently dominate trend of specialization goes against against this approach arguing that it is not possible nor useful. We disagree and believe that overspecialization is one of the major ills of our society that has produced many unintended (and not recognized) negative consequences. |
| Future updates and a detailed explanation of this Curriculum will be forth coming in the near future. |
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Matt
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Nashville VCBH Studio
March 2, 2008
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