Subject: The Uninvolved Citizen and Transpartisanship
Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2014
Msg: 100826
From: List for transpartisan leaders and innovators [mailto:TRANSPARTISAN@LISTS.THATAWAY.ORG] On Behalf Of Lawrence Chickering Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 8:52 AM To: TRANSPARTISAN@LISTS.THATAWAY.ORG Subject: Re: [TRANSPARTISAN] The Uninvolved Citizen and Transpartisanship
Dear Don,
Thank you for this powerful statement. Your vision of Spiral Dynamics aligns
completely with my own view of advancing consciousness of the self, which I
adapted from Rudolf Steiner's teachings and is also aligned with Hegel's writings
on consciousness of freedom. I am attaching two papers I have written on
related subjects: first a background paper I wrote in 1997 for an Asia
Foundation U.S.-Asia Dialogue on Community and Citizenship; and second,
published in Policy Review in 2012, a paper on Educate Girls Globally and its work in
the most traditional and tribal communities in India. (I dislike the title; our title
was 'Empowering the Poor: The Role of Civil Society Organizations'.)
EGG's experience shows it is possible to promote changes in the concept of self
fairly quickly in a way that supports movement toward modern democratic
and economic institutions and values. Since the process is entirely organic,
it is also politically stable: we have not encountered any significant opposition
or conflict in 7,000 schools serving about 800,000 children; and governments
in India are now pushing us to accelerate expansion of the program, while
funding significant parts of it.
I would of course welcome any thoughts or comments you may have in
response to these.
Best,
Lawry
A. Lawrence Chickering
Founder and President, Educate Girls Globally (EGG)
1485 Main St., Ste 103c
St. Helena, CA 94574
415.235.6628
email: lchick0203@gmail.com
www.educategirls.org
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