In my wilder moments, and drawing upon the unique experience of SCIE and their amazing visual learning approaches, I begin to wonder what formal teaching of medicine, education, planning, social work and associated areas is all about. The game for me is re-exploring the Nineteenth Century concept of Smilesian Self-help and I've not come across a group that does it better. Surely we all learn through apprenticeship models and what over-formal teaching does is simply remove us would-be professionals from thinking about ways in which we relate to people. Let's reinvent the world through blogging and here's COVER's (and my) first challenge. How many of our readers have thought about how we often duplicate each others' work and can any of us produce examples of consciously and reflectively working together? This doesn't mean that we take each other over but it does mean that we would all move on if we thought more about formal, and informal, cooperation.
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