Namibia - with a few MIT OCW courses

December 5, 2013, 9:08 am

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Dear Ashley (and Jamie),

Thanks for an edifying and biological processes-focused, anthropological talk at Stanford on Monday - "Ecological influences on risk for sexually transmitted disease in a semi-nomadic population in Namibia" - http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/1571 (see, also - http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/1441).

Here's the new, beginning, Namibia World University and School, wiki page, and beginning university - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Namibia - with a few MIT OCW courses, some loosely related to your talk.

WUaS is planning for each Nation State to become an online, accredited, MIT OCW-centric university, and in main languages in that country, - see for example MIT OCW's beginning, translated courses in 8 languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - as well as to become wiki schools for people-to-people teaching and learning in ALL of the languages in a country; Wikipedia, by way of comparison, is in 287 languages, (and we all wrote it as a wiki).

And relating to your talk, you'll find MIT OCW-centric, WUaS, wiki subjects for
'Statistics' (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Statistics),
'Sexuality' (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sexuality),
'Experimentation' (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Experimentation),
'Ecology' (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ecology) and many, Science subjects at WUaS here at the main
Subjects' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and here in the main
Science links - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science#World_University_and_School_Links.

(And here's the WUaS One Laptop per Child - XO Laptop, wiki, subject page -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT. This is one not so recent web site I found when I searched for OLPC Namibia - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_HarvardMIT_Namibia.

And here is the current main Africa, wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Africa#World_University_and_School_Links - where again each country and many languages will become MIT OCW-centric, online universities.

WUaS would like also to develop and focus pan-African research projects, and perhaps, as an example, by extending the research in your talk into research approaches for all of Africa via WUaS as a startup, MIT OCW-centric, online, research university via its main, beginning Research wiki page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research.

While a very, very large project, WUaS also plans to become the Harvard / MIT of the Internet and in all languages and countries, eventually hiring faculty and researchers.

Let's communicate further about this Namibian WUaS, as well as WUaS universities and schools in Africa, both accredited and as wiki schools for people-to-people, open teaching and learning, and especially research projects which might benefit from an online, MIT OCW-centric, all African countries and languages approach.

Best wishes and thanks again for a fascinating talk and sharing your research,
Scott

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December 6, 2013, 9:27 am

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Agency?

'action or intervention, esp. such as to produce a particular effect' : "canals carved by the agency of running water"… or 'a thing or person that acts to produce a particular result' (Apple 2.x dictionary)

Agent (with autonomous causality) and actant co-constituting each other?

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Agency can be an important idea in that, conceptually and philosophically, it can lead to finding ways to individual freedom for you (or I). If you find yourself bound in, in some ways, think through the implications of agency for yourself.

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See, too -

California condor: What's anthropological agency? I heard a fascinating, Anthropology talk yesterday at Stanford, which suggested that food in Bengal, India, was an actant, or had agency, What's an agent anthropologically?, What's agency philosophically? What's agency for robotics? When can we say that a robot has achieved various degrees of autonomous causation? What's agency for digital bots such as avatars in virtual worlds?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/california-condor-whats-anthropological.html

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Again and further, what's agency vis-a-vis the academic field of Anthropology?

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December 7, 2013, 12:02 pm

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Great ...

Educational System of Finland part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USkVIs19Lws

Presentation of the Educational System of Finland by the Ambassador of Finland in Greece Erkki Huittinen (in greek & english) followed by discussion.
The event took place in Patras in May 2008.

Παρουσίαση του Εκπαιδευτικού Συστήματος της Φιλανδίας στην Πάτρα με αφορμή και τα αποτελέσματα της διεθνούς έκθεσης PISA του ΟΟΣΑ.

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Added this to

Theories of Learning (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_of_Learning),

Finland (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finland), and

Greece (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Greece),

wiki pages at World University and School ...

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New, beginning,

Finland World University and School ...

with new,
Finland, wiki page at WUaS

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finland

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How can World University and School learn from Finnish educational practices?

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December 8, 2013, 8:57 am

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Hi Brery,

Looking forward to talking further about music, neurophysiology (and also eliciting qualities of bliss, as neurophysiology, and naturally :) over time.

Here are some further resources and ideas I've already developed about some of this ...

Music:

the beginning, World University and School

Music School

(planned for real, real time music making and online jamming) and some of its subject links (and also planned for all languages and all instruments, each a wiki page to begin) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ...

Neurophysiology:

the beginning, 'Neurophysiology,' subject page at WUaS for open, wiki teaching and learning - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Neurophysiology

the 'Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology)' wiki page and links at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)#World_University_and_School_Links

the 'Neurophysiology' label in my blog -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/neurophysiology

the 'Loving Bliss' label in my blog -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss

Loving Bliss letters on my web site - http://scottmacleod.com/links.htm

Let's talk further about music and neurophysiology with time and perhaps even make music together toward this after awhile (in Berkeley with Scottish Country Dancing to begin? :)

And thank you!

Best regards,
Scott

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November 14, 2013, 12:35 pm

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Light lumens illuminated lightly

The way to the pools’ warm,

At night, moon-wise,

At Harbin.

What lovely, pied moonlight,

dappling all around.

http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/image/image_gallery?uuid=83c41a9d-458c-4025-b69f-dd2f98ba6007&groupId=11003

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November 15, 2013, 9:21 am

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''WUaS Accreditation Plans''

'''WUaS Accreditation Plans in English'''

Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (state of California) (BPPE). [http://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_pubs/approval_nonaccredited.pdf Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) Application for Approval to Operate for an Institution Non Accredited]. West Sacramento, CA: bppe.ca.gov .

Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). [http://www.detc.org/ Distance Education and Training Council (DETC)]. Washington, D.C.: detc.org .

Friends Council on Education (FCE). [http://friendscouncil.org/ Friends Council on Education (FCE)]. (as Quaker online I.B. MIT OCW-centric high schools). Philadelphia, PA: friendscouncil.org .

International Baccalaureate Online Program (IB). [http://www.ibo.org/diploma/development/dponline/index.cfm International Baccalaureate Online Program (IB)]. Bethesda, MD: ibo.org/diploma/development/dponline/index.cfm .

Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC senior). [http://www.wascsenior.org/ Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC senior)]. Alameda, CA: wascsenior.org .

'''WUaS Accreditation Plans in Arabic'''

MacLeod, Scott. 2013. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/annona-reticulata-seeds-red-custard.html Collaborating with 'Friends School in Ramallah' (which began in 1869), now an International Baccalaureate high school + which is taught in both English and Arabic, and explore how Quakerly to network WUaS with them in developing the online MIT OCW-centric WUaS, I.B. schools, first in English?]. November 4. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/annona-reticulata-seeds-red-custard.html .

'''WUaS Accreditation Plans in French'''

'''WUaS Accreditation Plans in Mandarin (Chinese)'''

'''WUaS Accreditation Plans in Russian'''

'''WUaS Accreditation Plans in Spanish'''

Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA). 2013. [http://www.aneca.es/ANECA Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA)]. Madrid, ES: aneca.es/ANECA .

MacLeod, Scott. 2013. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/octopi-and-chromatophores-rfc-request.html RFC - REQUEST FOR COMMENT about WUaS Organizational and Management Structure for BPPE forms, Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Mandarin, Wiki, Like Wikipedia with MIT OCW (not endorsed by MIT)]. October 5. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/octopi-and-chromatophores-rfc-request.html .

MacLeod, Scott. 2013. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/iberian-lynx-wuas-accrediting-in.html WUaS accrediting in Spanish in Spain and accrediting in Mandarin Chinese in China from a Stanford Law - Peking Law School conference at Stanford]. May 11. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/iberian-lynx-wuas-accrediting-in.html.

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Just added these above to World University and School's

Admissions at WUaS wiki page ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

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Tatra mountains: Network and accredit with these Quaker schools around the world, and especially vis-a-vis the countries they are in?, Haven't been able yet to find Quaker schools where the language of learning is Russian, Mandarin (Chinese), or French, in the main United Nations' languages, (Friends House Moscow - http://friendshousemoscow.org/?page_id=55 ... Hong Kong Meeting - http://www.friends-hk.org/ ... France Yearly Meeting - http://fwccemes.org/fam/?mg=6), Quaker schools really care for students as individuals (vis-a-vis the 'light within' young people), creating an ethos around this, which is centuries old, and many students love Quaker schools, long after they've graduated, Mid-India Yearly Meeting

November 16, 2013, 10:17 am

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Networking and accrediting in conjunction with these Quaker schools around the world, and especially vis-a-vis the countries they are in, both at the high school I.B. and the C.C., MIT OCW-centric {http://video.mit.edu/channel/opencourseware/}, WUaS University levels, may make sense ...

List of Friends' schools
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Friends_schools

... haven't been able yet to find Quaker schools where the language of learning is in Russian, Mandarin (Chinese), or French in the main United Nations' languages, but there probably are Quaker Monthly or Yearly Meetings associated with these languages (Friends House Moscow - http://friendshousemoscow.org/?page_id=55 ... Hong Kong Meeting - http://www.friends-hk.org/ ... France Yearly Meeting - http://fwccemes.org/fam/?mg=6), and there's Friends World Committee for Consultation - http://www.fwccworld.org/.

Nation States at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States -

Languages at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Australia[edit source | editbeta]

The Friends' School, Hobart, in Hobart, Tasmania: PreK-12th grade, founded by Quakers and governed by Quaker principles. The majority of the school governors are appointed by Australia Yearly Meeting, mostly from the Tasmania Regional Meeting; the Hobart local meeting house is on school grounds.

Belize[edit source | editbeta]

Friends Boys School, Belize City, supported by Friends United Meeting ^[2]

Bolivia[edit source | editbeta]

Bolivian Friends have established several schools, which are supported from the United States by the Bolivian Quaker Education Fund.

Canada[edit source | editbeta]

Pickering College, Newmarket, Ontario, PreK-12th grade, founded as a Quaker School, "not a Quaker school today".^[3]

defunct- Argenta Friends School, Argenta, B.C

Costa Rica[edit source | editbeta]

Monteverde Friends School, Monteverde, PreK-12th grade, under care of Monteverde Monthly Meeting (Friends General Conference).

El Salvador[edit source | editbeta]

Instituto Teológico de los Amigos de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, a ministerial training institute under the care of Iglesia de los Amigos en El Salvador.

Great Britain[edit source | editbeta]

For Northern Ireland, see Ireland below

Secondary Schools[edit source | editbeta]

Ackworth School, England. "founded in 1779 by John Fothergill on behalf of The Religious Society of Friends... the School Committee is still accountable to this body."^[4]
Bootham School, York, England. Majority of School Committee is appointed by Quakers in Yorkshire, formerly Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting.^[5]
Breckenbrough School, England. Residential school for boys with behavioral and emotional conditions. A "registered charitable trust school with a Quaker... trusteeship."^[6]
Leighton Park School, Reading, England. Independent Quaker boarding and day school. Founded in 1890 in part to replace Grove House School inTottenham, London.
The Mount School, York, England, independent Friends school for girls, founded by Yorkshire Quakers.
Friends School Saffron Walden, England, the oldest Friends School, founded 1702, under the care of Britain Yearly Meeting which indirectly appoints the school's Board of Governors through the Friends School Saffron Walden General Meeting (FSSWGM).^[7]
Sibford School, England, independent Friends school
Sidcot School, England. "The School’s... Governing Body, is largely appointed by representatives from Quaker meetings in the South West of England."^[8]

Non-Friends Schools with Friends Connections

St Christopher School, England, founded by Theosophists and never under care of the Society of Friends, but operated 1925-1980 by the Harris family, who were Quakers.^[9]

Defunct Friends Schools

Great Ayton Friends' School, England, founded as a school for students whose parents had been disowned by Friends meetings for "marrying out" of meeting, became a general Friends school after 1854, became formally disassociated with Friends in 1991 as "Ayton School," and closed in 1997.
Newington Academy for Girls, Stoke Newington, then just north of London. Founded in 1824 by William Allen.
Wennington School, England (closed 1975)
Wigton School, Brookfield, Wigton, England (closed 1984)^[10]

Other institutions[edit source | editbeta]

Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, adult study centre for United Kingdom Quakers.

Honduras[edit source | editbeta]

Instituto Biblico Jorge Fox, San Marcos Ocotepeque, Honduras, a ministerial training institute under the care of Junta Annual Amigos de Honduras.

Ireland (including Northern Ireland)[edit source | editbeta]

Drogheda Grammar School, Drogheda, Co. Meath (Louth), trustees are mostly members of the Society of Friends, not formally under care of a meeting
Friends' School Lisburn, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, founded 1750, majority of trustees represent Ulster Quarterly Meeting.^[11]
Newtown Junior School,
Newtown School, Waterford, Ireland
Rathgar Junior School

Jamaica[edit source | editbeta]

Happy Grove High School, Hectors River, founded by Quakers, now operated by the Jamaican government.^[12]

Japan[edit source | editbeta]

Friends School (Japan), Tokyo, Japan, founded by Quaker missionaries, now independent of specific meeting care, but run on Friends principles.

Kenya[edit source | editbeta]

All Quaker schools and yearly meetings in Kenya are affiliated with Friends United Meeting. Note that the Friends World Committee for Consultation websitecounts, but does not name, many more Kenyan Friends schools than are listed here,

Lebanon[edit source | editbeta]

Brummana High School (BHS) in Brummana, Lebanon was founded by Theophilus Waldmeier and Cybil & Eli Jones in 1873. It remains in the Friends tradition, managed by British Quakers, serving a wide area of the Middle East.

Palestinian West Bank[edit source | editbeta]

Ramallah Friends Schools, West Bank

United States[edit source | editbeta]

Abbreviations:

EFCI: Evangelical Friends Church International
FGC: Friends General Conference
FUM: Friends United Meeting
NEYM: New England Yearly Meeting
PYM: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Higher Education[edit source | editbeta]

Barclay College, Haviland, Kansas. Associated with Friends Church, "Barclay College is an evangelical Friends school which accepts and embraces persons with evangelical Christian beliefs from a variety of denomination backgrounds."
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution, now non-denominational.
Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Affiliated with Western Yearly Meeting (FUM).
Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana. Associated with FUM, but has relations with all branches of the Society of Friends.
Friends University, Wichita, Kansas. Founded as a Quaker institution, now non-denominational with "an amicable but independent relationship with the Society of Friends" (EFCI).^[15]
George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon. Affiliated with Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends (EFCI).
Global College. Founded as Friends World College by New York Yearly Meeting (Friends General Conference), now part of Long Island University and unaffiliated with Friends.
Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded as a Quaker college. College draws on Quaker traditions, but no formal affiliation.
Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. Founded by members of the PYM, became part of the Orthodox PYM after the Hicksite-Orthodox schism. Remains rooted in Friends tradition and grounded in Quaker practice, but without formal affiliation.
Houston Graduate School of Theology, Houston, Texas. "identifies with the Quaker movement," grounded in Evangelical Friends theology and practice.^[16]
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland was founded by a Quaker and most early trustees were Quaker,^[17] but was always officially non-denominational.
Malone University, Canton, Ohio. Sponsored by Evangelical Friends Church - Eastern Region (EFCI).^[18]
Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California. Graduate school of education based around a children's school founded by Quakers. Strong Friends influence but no formal affiliation.
Shimer College, Chicago, Illinois. Governance & pedagogy is Quakerly but has no official affiliation with Friends.
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded by Hicksite PYM, now independent.
Whittier College, Whittier, California. Founded by Quakers, now secular and independent with "an appreciation for Quaker values."^[19]
William Penn University, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Founded by Quakers, no formal affiliation. "The university is firmly rooted in its Christian heritage with certain characteristics distinctive to Quakers, but welcomes faculty, staff and students from all faiths."^[20]
Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio. Founded by Quakers, associated with Wilmington Yearly Meeting (FUM).

Secondary (High) Schools[edit source | editbeta]

"Independent Quaker schools" are operated using Quaker principles and often include a majority of Quakers among trustees, but are not formally under care of a meeting.

Abington Friends School, Abington, Pennsylvania, grades preK-12, under care of Abington Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
Alexandria Friends School, Alexandria, Virginia, grades 9-12, Independent Quaker school.
Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, New York, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school.
Carolina Friends School, Durham, North Carolina, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school.^[21]
Delaware Valley Friends School, Paoli, Pennsylvania, specializing in students with learning differences, grades 7-12, under the care of Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, PYM (FGC).^[22]
Friends Academy, Locust Valley, New York, Independent PreK-12 Quaker School.
Friends Bible Training School, Kotzebue, Alaska, supported by Alaska Yearly Meeting (EFCI).^[23]
Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker School.
Friends Meeting School, Ijamsville, Frederick County, Maryland, grades preK-12 (grades 9-12 beginning fall 2009), Independent Quaker school
Friends School of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, grades preK-12, now Independent, but maintains historic ties to Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run, Baltimore Yearly Meeting (FGC).
Friends Select School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-12, under care of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Race Street) and the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street), both PYM (FGC).
Friends Seminary, New York, New York, grades K-12, under care of New York Quarterly Meeting, New York Yearly Meeting (FGC).
George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania, grades 9-12, Independent; board is self-perpetuating by approval of PYM (FGC).
Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-12, under care of Germantown Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
Greenleaf Friends Academy, Greenleaf, Idaho, grades K-12, Independent, but affiliated with Northwest Yearly Meeting (EFCI).^[24]
Lincoln School, Providence, Rhode Island, Girls grades PreK-12, Independent Quaker school.
Mary McDowell Friends School, Brooklyn, New York, specializing in students with learning differences, age 5-18. Formerly known as the Mary McDowell Center for Learning.
The Meeting School, Rindge, New Hampshire, formerly an independent Quaker school for grades 9-12; closed 2011.
Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, New Jersey, grades PreK-12, Independent, affiliated with Moorestown Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
Moses Brown School, Providence, Rhode Island, grades preK-12, under care of NEYM (FGC/FUM).
New Garden Friends School, Greensboro, North Carolina, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school.
Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie, New York, Independent grade 6-12 Quaker school.
Olney Friends School, Barnesville, Ohio, grades 9-12, Independent Quaker school formerly under the care of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative Friends).^[25]
Portland Friends School, Portland, Oregon, grades preK-12.
Sandy Spring Friends School, Sandy Spring, Maryland, preK-12, under the care of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting (FGC).
Scattergood Friends School, West Branch, Iowa, grades 9-12, owned and operated by Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative Friends)
Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school
Tandem Friends School, Charlottesville, Virginia, grades 5-12, Independent Quaker school.
Virginia Beach Friends School, Virginia Beach, Virginia, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school.
Wellsprings Friends School, Eugene, Oregon, grades 9-12, Independent Quaker school, Northern Pacific Yearly Meeting.
Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania, PreK-12 Independent Quaker School associated with PYM (FGC).
William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, First Quaker school in the world. Grades preK-12, not formally under care of a meeting, but governed by Quaker principles. Board of Overseers is largely Quaker.
Wilmington Friends School, Wilmington, Delaware, grades preK-12, independent but affiliated with Wilmington Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
Woolman Semester, Nevada City, California, one-semester program open to grades 11-13. Formerly John Woolman School.

Lower & Middle Schools[edit source | editbeta]

Note: This section lists schools with grades only below 9th grade. Schools including high school grades are listed above.

Buckingham Friends School, Lahaska, Pennsylvania, grades K-8, under care of Buckingham Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).^[26]
Cambridge Friends School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, grades preK-8, under care of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, NEYM (FGC/FUM).^[27]
Chappaqua Friends Nursery School, Chappaqua, New York, PreK
Concord Friends Nursery School, Concordville, Pennsylvania, PreK
Connecticut Friends School, Wilton, Connecticut, grades K-8, under care of Wilton Friends Meeting, NEYM (FGC/FUM).^[28]
Fairville Friends School, Mendenhall, Chester County, Pennsylvania, PreK
Frankford Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8, under the care of Frankford Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
Friends Academy of Westampton, formerly Rancocas Friends Academy, Westampton Township, New Jersey, grades preK-8, Independent Quaker School
Friends Christian School, Yorba Linda, California, grades K-8
Friends Community School, College Park, Maryland, grades K-8
Friends School of Atlanta, Decatur, Georgia, grades K-8
Friends School of Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, grades K-4, Independent Quaker school.
Friends School in Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, grades preK-8
Friends School Haverford, Haverford, Pennsylvania, grades preK-6
Friends School of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, grades K-8, Independent Quaker School.^[29]
Friends School Mullica Hill, Mullica Hill, New Jersey
Friends School of Portland, Portland, Maine
Friends Western School, Pasadena, California, grades preK-5 (through 6th grade in 2009-10)
Friends School of Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, grades preK-8, informally associated with Wilmington Friends Meeting
George Fox Friends School, Cochranville, Pennsylvania, grades PreK-6
Goshen Friends School, East Goshen, West Chester Area, Pennsylvania, grades preK-5
Greene Street Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8
Green Mountain Friends School, Burlington, Vermont, ages 5–14 years old
Greenwood Friends School, Millville, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8
Gwynnedd Friends Pre-School & Kindergarten, Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania, grades preK-K
Haddonfield Friends School, Haddonfield, New Jersey grades preK-8, Independent Quaker school.
Harford Friends School, Street, Maryland, grades 6-8
Helen Gander Friends Nursery School, Wilton, Connecticut, grade preK
High Point Friends School, High Point, North Carolina, grades preK-8
Lansdowne Friends School, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, grades preK-6
London Grove Friends Nursery School, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Kindergarten
Media-Providence Friends School, Media, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8
Newtown Friends School, Newtown, Pennsylvania, grades K-8
Oak Lane Day Care, Westtown, Pennsylvania, grade preK
Orchard Friends School, Riverton, New Jersey, specializing in students with learning differences, grades K-8
Pacific Ackworth Friends School, Temple City, California
Pacific Friends School, Temple City, California, preschool
Plymouth Meeting Friends School, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, grades K-6
Princeton Friends School, Princeton, New Jersey, grades preK-8, under care of Princeton Monthly Friends Meeting, PYM (FGC)
The Quaker School at Horsham, Horsham, Pennsylvania, grades 1-8
Rancocas Friends School, Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey, grades PreK-K, under care of Rancocas Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).^[30]
Richmond Friends School, Richmond, Indiana, grades K-6
Ridgewood Friends Neighborhood Nursery School, Ridgewood, New Jersey, preschool^[31]
San Francisco Friends School, San Francisco, California, grades K-8
Scarsdale Friends Nursery School, Scarsdale, New York, preschool
School for Friends, Washington, DC, preschool
State College Friends School, State College, Pennsylvania, grades K-8
Stratford Friends School, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, grades K-8^[32]
Swarthmore Friends Nursery School, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, preschool
United Friends School, Quakertown, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8
West Chester Friends School, West Chester, Pennsylvania, grades preK-5.^[33]
Westbury Friends School, Westbury, New York, grades preK-5.^[34]
Westfield Friends School, Cinnaminson, New Jersey, grades preK-8.^[35]
Whittier Friends School, Whittier, California, grades K-6.
Wichita Friends School, Wichita, Kansas, grades preK-6, Independent Quaker School, affiliated with EFCI.^[36]^[37]

Study Centers[edit source | editbeta]

Zimbabwe[edit source | editbeta]

Hlekweni Friends Rural Service is a training center outside Bulawayo. Affiliated with Central and Southern Africa Yearly Meeting.^[38]

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Glad to have found these 10 publications from Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, PA) recently ...

Friends Council on Education. 2013. Top 10 Titles. Philadelphia, PA: Friends Council on Education.

http://friendscouncil.org/Library/InfoManage/Guide.asp?FolderID=614&SessionID=%7BE44385B4-4B32-4A07-8B77-D5986FD62499%7D&SP=2

and added them to the WUaS, Quaker wiki page ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends

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Look interesting to visit ...

Friends' School in Tokyo, Japan ...
http://www.friends.ac.jp/school/ and http://www.friends.ac.jp/school/ and http://www.friends.ac.jp/menu/english.html

Friends’ School, Saffron Walden,
http://www.friends.org.uk/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/education/08/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/881_6012.stm ...

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Glad, too, to have found Mid-India Yearly Meeting information ... which says there are 6 Quaker Monthly Meetings in this Yearly Meeting, and that it once oversaw three Quaker Schools in India ... :)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-India_Yearly_Meeting

And, indeed, that these large bodies of Quakers are in India:

Bhopal Yearly Meeting
Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting
General Conference of Friends in India
Marble Rocks Monthly Meeting
Mahoba Yearly Meeting
Mid India Yearly Meeting

http://fwccawps.org/find_friends/

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Quaker schools really care for students as individuals (vis-a-vis the 'light within' young people), creating an ethos or culture around this, which is centuries' old, and many students love Quaker schools, long after they've graduated.

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December 9, 2013, 8:12 am

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Hi Matt and AoIR,

As part of the free, open, Academic Journals''ecosystem,' here's startup, C.C. World University and School's Academic Journal's wiki, Subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Journals_at_WUaS#World_University_and_School_Links . World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW and planning online, C.C. MIT-centric, university degrees in many languages) is also planning to develop academic journals in large languages to begin. For example, at present anyone can go to any subject on the main, WUAS, wiki, Subjects page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - in English only (at this time), and find Academia.edu near the top, and potentially add the article they've written to that subject.

Here's an example of a Subject page ... 'Open_Access_Resources' at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources - and as a C.C. wiki, anyone can start a Subject page in an area they're interested in, using this SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - or similar, which currently includes Academia.edu, since it's free and open, and makes it possible for academics to self-publish.

Have AoIR-ers seen Harvard computer science Professor Stuart Shieber's recent blog entry " Thoughts on founding open-access journals," which I've added to this WUaS Open Access Resources' subject using a version of the AAA citation approach:

Shieber, Stuart. 2013. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-founding-open-access-journals/ Thoughts on founding open-access journals]. November 21. Brookline, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-founding-open-access-journals/.

Stuart Shieber is one of the leading, tenured academic voices for open access journals, and writing very sensibly.

As startup World University and School develops and begins to accredit for university degrees, WUaS's approaches to online journals will move beyond Academia.edu's approach, particularly with respect to the editorial Board per Stuart Shieber's article.

(A huge project, wiki WUaS seeks to become the MIT / Harvard of the internet and in all 7,105 languages and 242 countries, and Wikipedia, by way of comparison, is in 287 languages and just developed and deployed a CC database, Wikidata. And WUaS plans to become a significant employer eventually, first hiring graduate students from greatest universities, if possible, as journal editors, and instructors in G+ Hangouts for example, to MIT faculty in MIT OCW in video).

I think Elsevier and Academia.edu will continue to pursue their publishing strategies, but make questions of Copyright and Creative Commons' licensing (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law#World_University_and_School_Links) more significant.

Best,
Scott

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December 10, 2013, 12:26 pm

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As a follow on to yesterday's blog post ...

Dear all

A timely contribution in todays Guardian:

Randy Schekman, who receives the Nobel prize on Tuesday, explains why he's eschewing the 'luxury' journals in favour of Open Access.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals

Nata

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Hi Nata and All,

Thanks for this article ...

Sample, Ian. 2013. [ http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals: Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process]. Monday 9. Manchester, England: The Guardian. ...

which I added to the following wiki subjects at World University and School, as an example of open access and academia.edu (also added you in academia.edu with my academia.edu URL below) ...

Academic Journals at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Journals_at_WUaS#World_University_and_School_Links ...

Intellectual Property - IP Law -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Intellectual_Property_-_IP_Law#World_University_and_School_Links -

Open Access Resources -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources#World_University_and_School_Links -

Science -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science#World_University_and_School_Links -

I just enjoyed revisiting another article from Ian Sample in a similar vein from last year in the Academic Journals at WUaS ...

Sample, Ian. 2012. [ http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices: University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls]. April 24. Manchester, UK: The Guardian.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Scott

http://scottmacleod.com/
https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod

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Carpentarian Grasswren: Grateful Dead ... 1991 ... a whole dead show................ view from the vault ... on drivingproblems' youtube channel ., the core Dead musicians seem to be enjoying, listening to, riffing with, and singing high harmonies with, the relatively new keyboard players ..... two keyboard players ... Vince Melnick and Bruce Hornsby ...

December 11, 2013, 8:58 am

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:))

Grateful Dead ... 1991 ...

a whole dead show................ view from the vault

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2JUjYcroc

on drivingproblems' youtube channel

:))

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two keyboard players ... Vince Melnick and Bruce Hornsby ...

I love the way they're really listening to each other when jamming ... chamber music echoes this at times ...

great harmonies ...

the core Dead musicians seem to be enjoying, listening to, riffing with, and singing high harmonies with, the relatively new keyboard players ...

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would love to learn from this for making music otherwise ...

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Araripe Manakin: 'Voice and Computing,' Edifying, Google languages' G+ Hangout with Reena Lee, Are you the best person to communicate with at Google about possible interns over time vis-a-vis WUaS?, I've added your G+ Hangout as reference ... Lee, Reena Singhal, and ? (interviewer). 2013. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9RhAdxs7zI CS4HS with Reena Lee]. December 11. (This video is private, however). Mountain View, CA: plus.google.com/u/0/+GoogleinEducation/posts ... to the following wiki pages at WUaS - 'Voice and Computing,''Internship Program at WUaS,''Mobile Technologies,' Languages (planned for all 7, 105 per 'The Ethnologue')

December 12, 2013, 11:27 am

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Hi Reena,

Thanks for your edifying Google Hangout with Q and A yesterday about Google languages (CS4HS with Reena Lee - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GoogleinEducation/posts).

"CS4HS with Reena Lee"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9RhAdxs7zI
(This video is private, however).

For future reference, and as World University and School begins to matriculate, first, undergraduate students (planned online for autumn 2014) and then Ph.D. students (planned online for 2015), are you the best person to communicate with at Google about possible interns over time?

(I found this online via Google Search about your work as an engineer - http://www.djgcreate.com/swe/joomla/images/AwardRecipients/Distinguished_Engineer/Lee.pdf :).

Here's the beginning, 'Voice and Computing,' wiki, subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Voice_and_Computing - with one MIT OCW course, as an example of how WUaS works. (For example, anyone can teach to their web camera about this, start a new related wiki subject page, or add a course they're developing, and this is planned first eventually for larger languages).

worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com is our main email address presently, which I've added above.

Looking forward to staying in communication.

Best regards,
Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010.

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I've added your G+ Hangout as reference ...

Lee, Reena Singhal, and ? (interviewer). 2013. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9RhAdxs7zI CS4HS with Reena Lee]. December 11. (This video is private, however). Mountain View, CA: plus.google.com/u/0/+GoogleinEducation/posts ...

to the following pages at WUaS:

'Voice and Computing,' wiki, subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Voice_and_Computing

'Internship Program' at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internship_Program_at_World_University_and_School

'Mobile Technologies at WUaS' -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mobile_Technologies

Languages (planned for all 7, 105 per 'The Ethnologue') -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

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Plains-Wanderer: Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren's intellectual light is beaming clearly in an amazingly enlivening way, Quite an intellectual 'flow' experience, Global Climate Change, Robotics, Dozens of MIT-centric, wiki, WUaS, STEM subjects, 'Computer History Youtube Channel' - http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory, Could you possibly please refer President Obama, and especially his daughters, to this page (which also has the WUaS flyers) - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html

December 13, 2013, 10:59 am

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Dear Lawrence,

Wow ... John Holdren's intellectual light is beaming clearly in an amazingly enlivening way ... I just heard an interview with him yesterday at the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org/events/past/#ostps-director-john-p-holdren) which was quite an intellectual 'flow' experience ('flow: the psychology of optimal experience' is an absorbed mind - challenge at the right level, per Csikszentmihalyi's research). (Holdren is the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). ... with a bachelor's degree from MIT and a Stanford PhD in the '60s, and originally from Pittsburgh, and grew up attending public schools in Silicon Valley ... will send you the video if it becomes available and watch it again too :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren)

I'm also planning to email John Holdren soon.

(And it may also appear on the 'Computer History Youtube Channel' - http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/ - which channel I just added to WUaS's Computing History, wiki, subject page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computing_History).

Sincerely,
Scott

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Dear John,

Thank you very much for such an engaging and edifying interview with NYTs' senior writer John Markoff yesterday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (http://www.computerhistory.org/events/past/#ostps-director-john-p-holdren). I wanted to give you some World University and School flyers for both yourself as well as President Obama and his family, especially his daughters, who go to a Friends' School, about this free, online, MIT-centric, university opportunity (which is also non-theistically Friendly-informed), but didn't have the chance after your talk. (I spent my high school years in Pittsburgh, PA).

I wanted also to let you know that WUaS, which is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware, is planning to offer online, accredited, MIT-centric, online, C.C. licensed diplomas, with a STEM-centric focus. Here's World University and School's beginning, extensible, Science, wiki, subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science#World_University_and_School_Links - with many MIT OCW courses, and where anyone can teach to their web camera, start a new subject page, or develop a new course, for example. Here, for example, is the beginning 'Ocean and Climate Management Plan' wiki, Subject page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan. And WUaS has wiki, subject pages that touch on dozens of the topics you spoke so eloquently about yesterday -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - including Robotics - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics - as another example, and anyone can begin a subject page at WUaS.

Creative Commons' licensed WUaS is seeking to matriculate its first, online, undergraduate class for free, bachelors' C.C. MIT OCW-centric degrees with a STEM focus (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics) in the autumn of 2014, with high school students applying this autumn 2013, and also seeks to become the Harvard / MIT of the Internet in all 7,413+ languages and 204+ countries - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links - as well as generate a kind of Stanford ethos online, in Google + Hangouts, for example.

With your great knowledge in so many fields and your interest in education, might you want to teach online at World University and School at some point? And could you possibly please refer President Obama, and especially his daughters, to this page (which also has the WUaS flyers) - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html.

Thank you again, and I hope we might communicate further about World University and School to bring your dynamic scientific thinking into the ethos of WUaS.

Sincerely,
Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010.

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December 14, 2013, 8:24 am

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World University and School's monthly business meeting agenda for today is here ... http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/12/december-14-2013-monthly-business.html ... and is open and begins at 9 am Pacific Time, for one hour ... WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare.

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Thraupis episcopus: Friends connecting with the inner light, in my interpretation, vis-a-vis hardening that goes on in cities, in SF

December 15, 2013, 1:23 pm

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Hi Donald,

very nice to see you today ...

curious about a kind of hardening, distancing and disconnecting ...

in contrast, perhaps, to a 'tenderizing' written about in Quaker literature often related to Friends connecting with the inner light, in my interpretation,

that goes on in cities, in SF and which I've also experience in a few Friends' Meetings,

relating possibly to intermingling 'cultures' and visions (e.g. Gay, down and out, individuals simply coping) ... perhaps simply an expression of urbanism ...

Kids' playing energy can be the opposite of this ...

I also find what I explore calling 'de facto relaxation response meditation' (Quaker Meeting) salutary in Quaker community in its urban-ness ...

but oh for tenderizing and generating connecting Grateful Dead-wise, Harbin pool-wise or Dalai Lama-wise, and Friendly poetry-wise, even ... as examples :)

Just some Friendly witnessing on First Day (different from anthropological participant observation :) ...

not quite 'I doth protest' ...

but an ongoing search for generating salutary community :)

... and I think I'll pop an omega 3 flax seed capsule :)

Scott

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Orange-throated Sunangel: WUaS's information technology big picture, Here's the opt-in / opt-out WUaS Google Groups' emailing list - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/World-University-and-School - at - World-University-and-School@googlegroups.com - where you'd be able to control more fully the flow of WUaS sporadic emails, and also BE ABLE TO POST TO EVERYONE (on this WUaS Google Groups' list, for future reference)

December 16, 2013, 9:49 am

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WUaS's information technology big picture, and about WUaS's email lists with other planned software (and Juan is also planning to suggest some other possible software):

Planned opt-in/opt-out mailing list (besides this current one - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/World-University-and-School) to work with Wikidata / MediaWiki / SemanticWiki, Quickbooks' Multi-store, MIT OCW (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/) and possibly Google + ... with secure registrar for academic transcripts.

(Wikidata / MediaWiki / SemanticWiki, Quickbooks' Multi-store, MIT OCW Translated Courses (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) and Google + with Google Translate (and in voice in Android smart phones, for example) will all be important to WUAS for their multiple languages and inter-lingual coding).

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Hi, sporadic Universitians,

Here's the opt-in / opt-out WUaS Google Groups' emailing list -

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/World-University-and-School -

at - World-University-and-School@googlegroups.com -

where you'd be able to control more fully the flow of WUaS sporadic emails, and also BE ABLE TO POST TO EVERYONE (on this WUaS Google Groups' list, for future reference).

WUaS BOARD members, especially, and active Universitians ... please join WUaS Google Groups' this list, so you can post.

Others, please let me know if you join this WUaS Google Groups' list, AND would like NOT to receive these sporadic Universitian emails. You can request, for example, daily or weekly digests on this Google Groups' WUaS list, lessening the stream of sporadic, Universitian emails.

Best wishes,
Scott

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December 17, 2013, 8:14 am

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Meme, as cultural replicating unit ...
(Dawkins coined the word in 1976 in his book "The Selfish Gene" as a correlate of genes, using the examples, I think, of a novel or a pretty summer dress, and more particularly of the rabies virus, which jumps from bodymind to bodymind, due to the parasitical nature of this rabies' form of life).

How is it considered or engaged in the fields of

psychiatry and psychology?

Memes in psychiatry are a very helpful idea explaining a lot.

Is it considered at all in psychiatry, for example, in the new or old DSM, or in its mostly European parallel ...

I was asking these questions of a friend at San Francisco Friends' Meeting this past Sunday, before heading into Quaker Meeting ...

Meme, as a concept, explains a lot, and emerges only due to Darwin and evolutionary biological thinking to explain cultural phenomena, acting in somewhat parallel ways to genes, which replicate themselves fundamentally ... with 3-100 million species on earth going back 3.5 billion years.

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Here are some wiki subjects about this, where we can add related ideas:

Psychiatry -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychiatry

Psychology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychology

Evolutionary Biology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology

Social Science -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science

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Wendell Berry's talk at Yale is on, in many ways, non-harming or care, vis-a-vis sustainable farming and industrialism ...

Yale 2013 Chubb Lecture with Wendell Berry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4c3GdB461s

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How to cultivate replicating non-harming or care memes, especially given we human primates' common chimpanzee tendencies, in my interpretation, relative to Bonobo chimpanzees, for example? In listening closely and in reading between the lines to Wendell Berry's talk with his interviewers, I wonder if they are examining some aspects or concerns about this, as well.

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I found a helpful definition of 'meme' today in the Apple 2.x dictionary ...

meme |mēm|
noun Biology
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.

ORIGIN 1970s: from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated,’ on the pattern of gene.

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December 18, 2013, 7:58 am

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Hi Donald,

It's a Quaker Meeting on Thursday at San Francisco Friends' School at 5, and I understand there's also candle lighting, of one kind or another (I overheard), safety-wise ... to be seen. I'll let you know about El Techno later, as well. M and R are lovely and philosophical, with a little bit of Stanford, Santa Cruz and Holland thrown in. :) Perhaps we can all share a meal there or elsewhere at some time in the future. 'L'Orient' ... oui.

I'm heading out Saturday for points' east, arriving in India - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India#World_University_and_School_Links - on 12/28 at 1am, returning to the SFBA on Sunday, January 19th ... transformed once again for life by the sometimes mind-blowing and ever tolerant (things can get a little hot under the collar there - but "The Emergency (India)" in the mid-1970s was their darkest hour - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India) - in recent times) cultural variety - linguistically and musically, too - but especially religiously, as well as artistically ... mother India. Know of any Quakers or Meetings in Chennai (Madras) or Kolkata (Calcutta)?

This popped into my email box from the Yale University Youtube channel -

"Revisiting Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Conversation with Partha Chatterjee"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZn9IqPJZg -

recently, which you might be interested in. I heard Partha Chatterjee, a professor at Columbia and a Bengali (whom you may well know), speak at Stanford within the past 9 months, and he touches on many anthropological themes with his focus on the Nation State here. I've added this to the Bangladesh, wiki, subject page at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bangladesh#World_University_and_School_Links - which is the beginning of an online, C.C., accrediting, MIT OCW-centric, Bangladesh World University and School in Bengali eventually - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bengali_/_Bangla. Listen particularly to the fascinating and very clear introduction of the Chatterjee interview, if you have 10 minutes ... :)

Any travel plans in the next few weeks for you?

Merry, merry here in the berry, and happy, happy, too, :)
Scott

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December 19, 2013, 1:11 pm

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Far-reaching, Yale conversation (December 2, 2013):

Online Education Open Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98dmMy0gbY

Many good ideas and clarifications emerge in this conversation, moderated by Yale Professor of Music, Craig Wright, very much engaging an aspect of the Conference Method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning):

- key Yale faculty discuss Yale OYC and OER

- critiques of current open educational platforms such as Coursera

- student and instructor analyses about what online teaching and learning approaches work, and how it works

- - Econ and Computer Science

- - Math

- on Yale University's decision making itself, and paying for Yale OYC and other Yale OER

- on open-ended and non-binding legal relationships for Yale

- on cost of Coursera (at the 132 minute mark), and ...

- - Coursera will verify that the student at that computer is indeed that person
- - Coursera will send out a statement that the student completed the work requested by the instructor

- on online teaching resources for medicine

- good Yale brainstorming about online learning, but not necessarily around questions of enjoyment (vis-a-vis 'flow' experiences) or flourishing in learning.

- online degrees (at 142 minutes)

- why Yale is sharing these resources (at 145 minutes)

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added to -

Education, wiki subject at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Education

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See, too, Professor Wai Chai Dimock ...

Open Source Platform: An Alternative to MOOCs with Wai Chee Dimock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4568twU6Kg

which I added to ...

Courses -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses

Open Access Resources -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources

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December 20, 2013, 10:10 am

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Hi P and G,

Nice to talk with you in India last night, P. And thanks for this learning opportunity in terms of visiting you as family friends, either soon or by postponing my trip on December 26th, 2013, - and thinking also in terms of my upcoming trip to India business-wise vis-a-vis WUaS. (My India tourist visa is for 6 months, so traveling to India in July / August as you have also suggested would involve another cost in getting a new visa).

I appreciate how you, P (as Financial and Arts' adviser to WUaS since November 2011), continue to talk about the importance of WUaS asking 'Gurudakshana' (donations to the teacher) vis-a-vis WUaS - as a MUST (in the context of India, culturally, I take it, perhaps as part of the social understanding around learning musical instruments, etc., there), - and vis-a-vis Classical Indian Music lessons - see ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Classical_Indian_Music#World_University_and_School_Links - as well as the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School. Apart from the Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees which would be free and involve taking 32 courses online for a free, WUaS, undergraduate degree, for example, I've long considered, and wondered about, for live, online, music lessons in the WUaS Music School (in all languages and potentially all instruments, each a wiki, subject page, to begin), about asking for a kind of tuition, and here, with this trip, learning culturally-economically from India possibly (but perhaps differently from WUaS country to country - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - and language to language - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages). I could imagine that being able to tell people in India, friends of yours, for example, and others, on this WUaS networking trip that WUaS is going to ask a kind of 'Gurudakshana' for online, Skype/G+ Hangout, music lessons, etc., for example, could be important, even for eventual Indian (WUaS fundraising) contributors, because this would be a familiar, age-old, musical pattern, and would thus be something they understood, could agree with, and could then possibly donate toward WUaS for, in a fundraising way. And both also could become more actively part of WUaS's business planning process, and set up processes of generating WUaS income. Ah, language and cultural diversity around music learning.

As a post-script, I'm including a 'Thank You' note to B, a friend of WUaS who donated $100 via WUaS's Paypal account 3 days ago below, about one way this might work.

And you, G, work, in part, on strategic planning about high speed internet access (vis-a-vis real, real time music making eventually) at Cisco in the south bay of the San Francisco Bay Area!

And I appreciate, G, how in your email yesterday you implied that there are fundraising opportunities vis-a-vis WUaS in India.

So it sounds like you, P, could manage my coming to visit in a kind of extended family way on December 28th, but perhaps it would be better to postpone, so I'm inquiring, about the costs of postponing/canceling, as well as the costs of a one-way flight to Kolkata to visit the Ms on January 1st, 2014, and I'll call you, G, soon about this, and possibly you, P, as well.

With best wishes,
Scott

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Dear B,

Thank you so, so much for your $100 donation to World University and School's

PayPal account - https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=ittaYxkMsdcHGlpo9UzmbFNyumxeMbzWpeb_VA0AcKrSUq-j8JaQ1Yyc1y8&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8def8934b92a630e40b7fef61ab7e9fe63 - two days ago

(accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html)!

WUaS welcomes, appreciates and greatly needs such resources!

Looking forward to talking soon.

Happy holidays, and warm greetings to your family!

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December 21, 2013, 10:24 am

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Manuel Castells'

"Globalisation and identity: A comparative perspective"

"Globalisation and the strengthening of various cultural identities (religious, national, ethnic, geographic, and gender, among others) have occurred over the last fifteen years. In my view, this is no coincidence but rather the product of a systemic relationship between the two phenomena."

http://www.llull.cat/rec_transfer/webt1/transfer01_foc01.pdf

Transfer (magazine), 2006

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adding to

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Agency

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Globalization

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Labor_Economics

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sociology

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science

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appreciating how Castells makes such concepts as identity relevant to readers and social scientists, almost on a feeling basis, as well as intellectually.