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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Wow!!!! What a woman Ruth was, I met her last in
2000 at the pre-school in 5th city, and was impacted again then. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>John and I add our deep thanks to Ruth and all her
colleagues for their pioneering work, and will be with you in spirit at her
service. Lela has agreed to put together a tribute to Ruth and Imaginal Ed for
Wind and Waves.... no doubt with input from others...so we may well collect
up stories over the coming months for W&Ws. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In fact the W&W team is thinking about
devoting a whole issue/series of articles to IE..so would appreciate
thoughts on this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>How could I stay out of this Imag Ed.
conversation!!!!...a relational way of life! ..a conceptual
framework...transformational image/ paradigm change, ( inquiry-based learning,
relational, restorative practice - all with its roots in Imag.
Ed.) is how I have used and translated this wonderful gift
of IE over my years in schools.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Together with few other colleagues on this list,
and others, some of us are in process of establishing a
Community of Practice around Creative Education for 21 C (This began
to get some legs out of conversations at the Nepal Conference in
November... We are about to have another conversation next week on this.
We would like to see how this connects with the IE team work. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The real task, is indeed, as Jack says below
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><EM>But the real task of the IE collection team is
to figure out how to reach a new audience, a new group of pioneers who are
working on how to transform the task of education at all levels. (Check out Tim
Dove interview to see how IE is transformative in a Middle School). How to
communicate the insights and the life stance that is required to be effective in
the Imaginal Education task....</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Jack, we would like to know more of what the IE
team is doing and how we might link and participate? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Lynda, Katie Kretzmann in Chicago may be the person
you are referring to...she is a part of this CoP think tank, as is Steve
Harrington......we are still at beginning steps, but maybe this IE team is
the link we need.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>best wishes, Robyn</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jackcgilles@gmail.com href="mailto:jackcgilles@gmail.com">Jack
Gilles</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=oe@lists.wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">Order Ecumenical Community</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=kelisepackard@rcn.com
href="mailto:kelisepackard@rcn.com">kelisepackard@rcn.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:49
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter --
Iron Woman Gift to Minister ofEducation in East Timor</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Dear Elaine and John,
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The work Ruth and so many others with the Fifth City Preschool is part of
our Imaginal Education collection of the archives. Although many things are
not scanned and available for download, we do have hard copy of hundreds of
talks, models, manuals and constructs. We are working on how people can visit
the site and request documents for a small fee. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Here is the link to the collection if you haven't seen it. <<A
href="http://wedgeblade.net/wordpress/imaginaleducation">http://wedgeblade.net/wordpress/imaginaleducation</A>></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>But the real task of the IE collection team is to figure out how to reach
a new audience, a new group of pioneers who are working on how to transform
the task of education at all levels. (Check out Tim Dove interview to see how
IE is transformative in a Middle School). How to communicate the
insights and the life stance that is required to be effective in the Imaginal
Education task. We want this to be global and we would like to ask one or both
of you to consider being part of our IE team. We're just at the front end of
this task and we can really use any wisdom, contacts, relationships and
passion you have "down under". </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>This is an open invitation to anyone on this list serve.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Good luck with the meeting.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Grace & Peace,</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Jack</DIV>
<DIV>For the Imaginal Education Collection team.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Jul 31, 2013, at 9:30 AM, "Lynda Cock" <<A
href="mailto:llc860@triad.rr.com">llc860@triad.rr.com</A>> wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Dear
Telfords, What wonderful work you two are doing in the Blue Mountains
of East Timor. We celebrate with you!!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=085360814-31072013></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>I don't know
if Elise is on this list or not, so I am making sure. The
first item that came to mind as a gift to the minister of education would be
a statue of the Iron Person, standing tall, along with this wonderful story
of Alice Baumbach's about the gifts of local people being trained to do the
jobs they care so much about, except lacking credentials. Also Lela
Jahn's & Karen Bueno's reflection yesterday about those early
years. Since we only have 24 hours, I would suggest a framed copy of
the Iron Person ( Great one on cover of 2010 Directory about the right
size). I also thought of the current work that Elise is doing with
Early Childhood Education. Don't know what is downloadable, but could
certainly be pointed to as an ongoing program. There is someone
at Kemper who is Elise's teammate who might have ideas. Pam
or Jean or Marge could possibly direct this to her if Elise is out
of town. </FONT></DIV>
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class=085360814-31072013></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Our best
wishes for a successful and meaningful meeting with the Friendship
Committee. Keep us posted.</FONT></DIV>
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class=085360814-31072013></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>With fond
memories of our work down under many years ago. (Jeremiah
was 8 months old so that makes it 35 years ago. Surely not!)</FONT></DIV>
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class=085360814-31072013></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Lynda Cock</FONT></DIV><BR>
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<B>On Behalf Of </B>the telfords<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 31, 2013
2:44 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Order Ecumenical Community<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Oe
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<DIV></DIV><BR>Dear Colleagues<BR>Although I never actually met Ruth, her
name and her contribution to our common mission is lodged in my
memory.<BR><BR>Now, a question - was the curriculum which was developed in
5th City the foundation for what later became known as Imaginal
Education?<BR><BR>This coming weekend the Blue Mountains East Timor
Friendship Committee, which Elaine & I are members of, are hosting a
visit by Dulce Soares, the East Timor government's Vice-Minister for
Pre-School and Basic (primary) Education - the ET Government has recently
launched a new Pre-School initiative to establish pre-schools widely across
the nation and I understand they are at the stage of putting together a
curriculum.<BR><BR>I was meeting with a couple of members of our organising
team this morning and we were discussing what would be an appropriate gift
to give to the Vice-Minister, and having just read about Ruth and the 5th
City curriculum before I went to the meeting, I said I could possibly come
up with a gift related to that.<BR><BR>Is there something I could download
which at least would give her an introduction to our approach to early
learning/development?<BR><BR>Any suggestions you can make in the next 24
hours will be most welcome.<BR><BR>Grace &
Peace<BR>John<BR> <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV>
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