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Creativity and Leadership

Source: www.ecoliteracy.org
Topic: Leadership

Sort Desciption: creativity and leadership and those are the ideas Id like to share with .... be more attention to emergent structures and to the leadership that ...

Content Inside: Creativity and Leadership in Learning Communities BY FRITJOF CAPRA A Lecture at Mill Valley School District April 18 1997 center for ecoliteracy 2522 SAN PABLO AVENUE BERKELEY CALIFORNIA 94702 PHONE 510.845.4595 FAX 510.845.1439 2 CENTER FOR ECOLITERACY CENTER FOR ECOLITERACY 3 FRITJOF CAPRA Creativity and Leadership in Learning Communities T he mission of the Center for Ecoliteracy is to foster ecological literacy in K-12 education. Being ecologically literate or ecoliterate means understanding the principles of organization of ecological communities (i.e. ecosystems) and using those principles for creating sustainable human communities. In particular we believe that the principles of ecology should be the guiding principles for creating sustainable learning communities. In other words ecoliteracy offers an ecological framework for educational reform. Ecology from the Greek oikos (household) is the study of the relationships that interlink all members of the Earth Household. Ecological thinking therefore is thinking in terms of relationships connectedness and context. In science this kind of thinking is known as systems thinking. I have given several talks here about the principles of ecology and about systems thinking both here in the library and on faculty retreats. Two of my talks from these retreats are published and available from the Center for Ecoliteracy. One of them titled Ecology and Commu- nity deals with the principles of ecology the other From the Parts to the Whole is about systems thinking. In my new book The Web of Life I trace the history of systems thinking through this century and propose a synthesis of several systems theories that were developed during the past twenty-five years or so. In other words I present a new conceptual framework for the scientific understanding of life. This new understanding of life has some very interesting implications for the understanding of creativity and leadership and those are the ideas I ...

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