We need an all-encompassing pedagogy

In this interview, Angélica Olvera, Academic and Educational Research Director for the CUDEC Group (Mexico) explains the concept of systemic pedagogy and its application to higher education.

Angélica Olvera

How would you explain systemic pedagogy?
Based on the general theory of systems, a systemic approach was adopted in the USA, Mexico and Spain several decades ago. Things do not happen lineally, but systemically. What is happening now is deep-rooted in what happened in past space and time. Systemic pedagogy is based on observing the wider context of the dynamics and implications that arise as a result of the interactions between all the components of the educational system. We look at the participation of educational institutions, families, and the social and political framework that enables every country to serve its citizens.

The information in the system guides you. There is a point that acts as a catalyst, which will bring this energy to light. Information systems are the result of a globalised world. The information that goes to and from computers is the same that is found in everyday networks. We all have certain information in our own networks, which are the result of unresolved problems handed down to us that are in turn passed on; an emotional field in which the unresolved emotions that we inherit are transmitted and reproduced.

In the framework of the development of the abilities and competencies required to solve these matters in future generations, systemics offers the vision we need. Young people in the future will need to have a clean slate to overcome very difficult situations and ensure that new systems are able to survive.

Although systemic pedagogy has been studied from the point of view of complex systems, cybernetics and educational technology, the proposal drawn up by the Centro Universitario Dr. Emilio Cárdenas (CUDEC) in Mexico aims to gain a greater insight into the orders of love based on connections using the approach taken by Bert Hellinger. This proposal has been tested in the field over the past 10 years.

What does this approach contribute to education?

Educación (com)partida (vídeo)

El modelo educativo actual, ¿es compartido por los políticos, la escuela, la familia, o tenemos que hablar de una educación partida? Se lo preguntamos al profesor Luis Fernando Vílchez, autor del libro: Educación (com)partida, sentidos y acentos.

Entrevista del Programa Últimas Preguntas del Canal 2 de Radio Televisión Española (RTV.es).

Duración: 23:33 min
Publicado en Gloria.tv, Canal jamacor, Diciembre 15, 2013
Ver video en Gloria.tv: http://gloria.tv/?media=541880

Without Roots, No Wings OR Teaching with Love

Systemic Pedagogy began in 2000, a new focus in a new millennium, based on what is natural to life itself and focused on elements that had not been previously observed thought the systems are completely interrelated. - the educational system, family system and social system.

Systemic Phenomenological Approach to Teaching with Marianne Frank
Marianne visited CUDEC for the first time in 2002 and her subsequent visits have contributed to the dream of bringing this work into the education realm - for this CUDEC is so grateful to her. As Marianne Frank said in 2006, the transference of the systemic vision of family therapy to teaching, allows one to perceive persons not as isolated individuals, but as part of an interrelated structure. Hellinger points out that at the subconscious level, we participate in the family drama and in its collective destiny. Family constellations allow us to unveil the fact that we form part of a greater soul that includes all the members of the family - each subject to a basic order. When found and respected, we can find our place in the family, and respect the place and destiny of the other family members as well. Respect and love towards family members is not just a feeling, but also a manifestation of principles that are generally unconscious. We belong to the greater soul of the family and the fate of the family is our own. This is the basis of Systemic Phenomenology.

The beauty of Systemic Pedagogy is that it sees in a student's dysfunctional attitude, deep evidence of love - of unconditional loyalty to father and mother. 

The final opportunity that parents have to participate powerfully and efficiently in the life of their children is adolescence and today more than ever, children need adults. At CUDEC, the educational process is dependent upon the generosity and effective efforts of the parents, which distinguishes it from other academic facilities.

The Future of Systemic Pedagogy
What is needed? Strength and sensibility. Not either alone, but both together, provide love with limits. As teachers, we must hold our students' parents in our hearts. From that perspective sensibility opens up, and together with strength, we provide the limits needed in the classroom. In this way, our love of life is revealed and this provides strength whish is visible in the work in the classroom. We imagine our teachers using the love that characterizes them, together with the strength of their own parents. By tapping into this source, love can in turn flow outward towards the students. Likewise we imagine the love of the student’s parents flowing through them - a very powerful image and one that makes all the difference.

When we educate with love, order emerges - the order needed to allow love to flow. Love and order equals strength. A PARENT’S LOVE FLOWING THROUGH THEIR CHILD - THAT IS THE POWER IN EDUCATION.



Resource: Systemicfamilysolutions.com

La Mejor Maestra (vídeo)

La mejor maestra del mundo, es la historia, que todo educador debe conocer, para jamás, estigmatizar un niño.

Duración: 6:13 min
Publicado en YouTube.com, Canal academiavilladelmatel, Marzo 10, 2011
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiLfVuIAsbA

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