| The
Context & Finding The Best Response
Our
Eleven-Year Experiment
Key
Concepts
Annual
Reports
Haitian
Organizations using Open Space and Reflection Circles
What
American Know-How Has To Learn
and other stories
Open
Space Approach
Reflection
Circles
(Touchstones)
View
"Circles of Change: a quiet revolution in Haiti"
a
mini documentary about our Experiment
Photo:
D. Morel
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Reflection
Circles (Touchstones)
The
Reflection Circle Project (called “Touchstones”
in the U.S.) began in Haiti in 1997 as a strategy for nurturing
discussion-based education in classrooms of all types. Through
reading and discussing carefully selected texts in Haitian
Creole, students develop skills in reading comprehension,
critical thinking, dialogue, and group dynamics.
Teachers
grow to trust their students’ ability both to learn without
coercion and to take responsibility for their own education.
The strategy for increasing the number of institutions, groups,
and classrooms that use Reflection Circles mirrors the underlying
philosophy of the method’s approach in the classroom.
Just as the students learn to mold their own futures, Reflection
Circle practitioners take strategic responsibility for increasing
the number of teachers and students who will have access to
this innovative method. Presently, more than three thousand
adults and children participate in weekly Reflection Circle
sessions in various regions of Haiti.
John
Engle Associates can help your school, classroom, or organization
to integrate Reflection Circles into your activities. Learn
how.
Go
to website of Touchstones
Discussion Project to learn more.
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