| The disciplines as a discrete ordering of human knowledge and fields of study
(mathematics, geometry, biology, chemistry, physics, history, language, the arts,
etc.) are used as a means of development at both the elementary and adolescent
level. For the elementary child, the disciplines appeal to the imagination and build
toward a constructive overview so that the whole of knowledge and its parts
have new meaning. For the adolescent, the goal is to “live” or “do” the
disciplines. Adolescents apply mathematics to doing economics, science to doing
environmental occupations, history to solving real community problems, language
to asking great questions that create a universal context for what is culture, what
is nature, what is society, and the possibilities for making the world a better place
through clear self-expression. |