If you have to control the situation you have already missed the point. It must control itself by nature of the authentic purpose of the environment. There is structure and production hierarchy-- but control in the end is the judgment and awareness of the students. This is what is assessed, an experience and a result, a product. Sometimes the 2 have little to do with one another. This is an intentional learning community. Not a random experience or a typical classroom. The classroom is a performing arts center and the product a vigorous, diverse production schedule. These are real activities with real consequences; an authentic learning community. In the wide diversity of place based cultural activities and their support there are numerous places for students with multiple talents, intelligences and interests. From the quiet, meticulous, always supportive production crew, such as costumers--to the boisterous rough carpenters, and visionary designers--along with every job in between--there are multiple roles for multiple types of learners to thrive and participate in an authentic, collaborative and place based event.
We spend too much time, well intentioned but doomed effort to try and reform certain situations. I see plenty of creative clusters forming over new ways of seeing things. Go there or bring it to you. We can see "home life" as a failed capitalist social engineering strategy, diving families into nuclear units, for maximum consumption. SO in the end what's missing is the reconnecting of society back together again and many people see the movement such as the new urbanists
We spend too much time, well intentioned but doomed effort to try and reform certain situations. I see plenty of creative clusters forming over new ways of seeing things. Go there or bring it to you. We can see "home life" as a failed capitalist social engineering strategy, diving families into nuclear units, for maximum consumption. SO in the end what's missing is the reconnecting of society back together again and many people see the movement such as the new urbanists