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Lewis Education has been founded as a part of Lewis Works in meta-systems development and reflects my involvement for most of my life on multiple levels in education and educational frameworks, both domestically and abroad, and my commitment to life-long learning, not only for myself, but for the people who surround me in ever enlargened circles of friendship and mutual involvement. Having had formal training as an educator on various levels, I have found increasingly that my professional background and training in cross-cultural anthropology serves well the central problem task of education. This does not involve just participant-observation, membership-role observation and ethnography in the classroom and the larger academic context, but it also involves entirely new models of human development and refashioning the problems of application in Anthropology to the problems of human development, as well as symbolic engineering frameworks for cross-cultural, cross-cognitive and cross-linguistic mediation and response pattern that is well grounded in research and experimental analysis.
The basic rationale of Lewis Education rests on the pivotal question: how do we build a better mousetrap--in this case, the mousetrap is the conventional model of education that we have inherited in a collective sense. Though this model varies considerably in different national systems, more or less well endowed, there are essential elements that remain unchanging and near universal to all education systems. There are components that work, and those that do not. The foundation of Lewis Education rests therefore on discovery of those factors that are common, tried and true in all educational frameworks, worldwide, and building upon them in an innovative and dynamic manner that opens up new possibilities. The basis for this sense of innovation and alternative dynamic development rests upon two main facts that characterize all educational systems: 1. education is a human constructive process that is an extension of cultural integration and adaptation; and 2. education is a social process of construction that is both symbolically, relationally and behaviorally systematic--in other words it is an extension of normal human systems, as institutions, that function and serve the larger purpose of human adaptation and survival on earth.
Pedagogy as a subject-centered orientation in teaching has largely been neglected for the sake of student-centered and control-oriented management planning. Striking and maintaining the golden balance between subject and student centered approaches demands of the typical teacher a certain level of finesse, refinement and commitment to the problems that education daily and hourly presents in an average classroom context.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
