Research Team Two

Order Council '68

Ecumenical Institute

Chicago

THE EDUCATION MATRIX


RELATIONAL PURPOSES:







OVERALL GOALS:
1. to enable the Order to move with a common mind, program and style

2. to enable the movement to stand as colleagues of iron leadership

3. to enable the church to re­educate every pew occupant

4. to enable the world to see the transparency of its own being

1. to promote educational structures that infuse the WORD into every life crisis

2. to train in covenantal life that can effectively ACT upon every socia1 structure

3. to provide an ordering of knowledge that can illuminate the AWE in every secular reality

4. to forge an ordering of religious 1ife that forms the ecstatic STYLE for every sensitive spirit

RATIONALE FOR THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART:

The four Action Constructs of the Education Matrix are associated with four abstract categories: 1. the covenant with all men, 2. the covenant with the historical church, 3. the covenant with the spirit movement, and 4, the covenant with the order. Secular man includes within it the churchman, the movement and the order. Churchman includes within it the movement and the order. The movement includes within it the order. The order stands as the most limited population of these four areas of educational responsibility.



ORGANIZATIONAL CHART OF THE EDUCATION MATRIX

COVENANTAL CATEGORIES

I.

ORDER

II.

MOVEMENT

III.

CHURCHMAN

IV.

SECULARMAN

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM



BASIC RESEARCH



CADREMAN TRAINING

COLLEGE



GENERAL ENABLEMENT



TRACTARIAN FORMATION








FUNCTIONS

(Subsidiary)

(Goal)


 . .

1­ centralization of paradigm development


2 ­ articulation of corporate mind


3 ­ refinement of curriculum


4 ­ organization of research formats


 1 ­ content intensification


2 ­ methodological prowess


3 ­ missional corporate ness


4 ­ personal healing

 1 ­ curriculum advisement



2 ­ study guidance


3 ­ visionary resources


4 ­ glob1 relations

 1 - priority determination



2 ­ material preparation


3 ­ distribution model


4­evaluction model

ACTION

CONSTRUCT



Basic Research Team I



CTC Faculty



EI Publishing Centrum



Tractarian Formation Team

EDUCATION PROGRAM:
Cadreman Training College

ACTION CONSTRUCT:
Cadreman Training College Faculty

OVERALL FUNCTION:
To provide the leadership of the movement with the intensification needed for the transformation of the Global Church and driving the global revolution

FUNCTIONS:

1. Content Intensification ­ to press to the depths of the ordering of knowledge, practice and style of being

2. Methodological Prowess ­ to achieve clarity and skill in Pedagogy, Social Reformulation and Contemplative practices

3. Missional Corporateness ­ to experience common life responsibility and interdependence in faculty, cadre and college communal forms

4. Religious to enable a fresh conscious decision concerning personal spirit journey and the discipline of contemplation, meditation and prayer

STRUCTURES:
1. Recruitment Structure ­ select from regions, check prerequisites

2. Eight Week and Daily Format ­ curriculum, time structure, work periods and days of celebration

3. College Life Format ­ rubric, rule, covenant, obediences and accountability

4. Practics Structure ­ structure for children, practical needs, finances and facilities

TACTICS:
1. Maximized Participation ­ to involve participants in depth creativity, in teaching and in unit priorship

2. Strict Discipline and Rigorous Accountability ­ to enable serious intentionality toward the engraving of a corporate life style

3. Symbolic Life Emphasis ­ to hold them objectively before the final mystery and the missional task (worship, celebrations, garb, rituals, etc.)

4. Teaching Style ­ to maintain an intimate teaching presence which intensifies the spirit struggle

EDUCATION PROGRAM:
Basic Research

ACTION CONSTRUCT:
Basic Research Team

OVERALL FUNCTION:
The research of the church is the comprehensive investigation of our experimentation with edge cultural wisdom with the aim of clarifying or revising this wisdom in the light of the source of all wisdom: the Word in Jesus Christ The Order in its mission to all men of every time and place and in the midst of an overwhelming information explosion now requires a division "set aside" on behalf of the whole Order to intensify its research function. Thus if the Order is to increase in complexity and continue in unity, it must develop a department of research. This is practical research and the Order itself is the laboratory of inquiry in which the questions are raised, the experiments carried out, data analyzed, conclusions reached, models built and shared for the sake of the future of all men.

FUNCTIONS:
1. Centralization of Paradigm Development ­ The department is the center for storage and compilation of the total order's research information and experimental data and the structure for further enablement of the corporate struggle through dimensional extension and experiments with the basic order paradigms.

2. Articulation of Corporate Mind ­ The basic research team is to make available for every order member in written composition the substance of the common research as well as public statements in a research journal.

3. Perfection of Curriculum ­ The research department is responsible for continually updating the theological and cultural curriculum and for developing the course construct to freight the new trends in Being and Style.

4. Organization of Research Formats ­ In order to intensify the overall missional research of the order, the basic research department offers for consensus the general theoretical and practical format for order research councils and other basic projects.

STRUCTURES:

1. Research Writing Team ­ A team of twelve men would collect data, prepare written documents, publish a journal and report weekly to the Collegium; the quarterly selection of these men would be based on their writing and pedagogical skills and their depth comprehension of the models and categories of the common mind of the Order.

2. Order Research Council ­ This council would be composed of the heads of the Order divisions and the Research Writing . It would meet tri­quarterly to prepare a format for the RWT's work and once a quarter to draw up the priorities of a format for the Order Council (the whole body as a research unit).

3. Order Reference Library (Data File) and Bibliography System ­ The library would be a highly selective collection of edge materials (books, magazines, articles, films, tapes) for the use of both the RWT and the Order as a whole. The bibliography would be ordered under missional, topical headings such as NSV, NRM, the Sub­Asian UR, practics of imaginal education and would contain listings of the crucial documents that the Order Research Council recommends be consulted.

4. Corporate and Individual Study Assignment Model ­ At the end of each quarter the Order Council would offer a model of the next quarter's study assignments for the total Order, the divisions and individuals, as well as specific assignments, study format, cross­references, questions and a general syllabus.

TACTICS:
1. Collection of Reference Materials ­ The department will filter the inflow of data to files, tapes and microfilms for shaping the common memory.

2. Interviews with Direct Sources ­ Direct access to specialized sources is enabled by travel for interviews and experimental projects providing raw data to the researching process.

3. Analysis of Historical Trends - Careful analysis of order functions, movement dynamics and social change gives imaginal form to the process of history.

4. Models of Trend Formation ­ The production of manuals of operations and methods enables the practical insertion of futuric images into the historical process.

The Name S__________________

Suggestions: The Community of Revolutionary & Religious Formation

The Conservatory of Contemplative Formation

The Academy of Revolution a Piety

The School of Transformulational Leadership

I. Theoretical Assumptions

A. Purpose

B. Educational Philosophy

C. Uniqueness of Program

D. Relations

  1. Practical Construct

A. Content

B. Format

C. Common Life

D. Practics

I. Theoretical Assumptions

  1. Purpose

The formation of primal pedagogues, social reformulators, and contemplatives who can give

transformulational leadership to the global church.

B. Educational Philosophy

1. Christian community life is the proper context for training the leadership of the Christian community.

2. Methodology is more important than content.

3. The white hot center of the spirit life is the integrating motif of the total program.

C. Uniqueness of Program

If Summer '68 was reservist maneuvers, this program is Officers Training School. In addition to the spirit edge and its practical meanings, it attempts to provide rigorous academic depth, skills in teaching total curriculum, and skills in movement practice.

D. Relations

1. Both the Order and the movement leadership receive this training.

2. This is an autonomous pioneer venture in education on behalf of all religious and secular education.

3. A diploma will be given yet further training of special sorts will of course be necessary.

II. Practical Construct

A. Content

1. General Methodologies: Study, theological, group, intellectual

2. Pedagogical Methodologies

3. Social Methods: Local Church and Movement

4. Being Turn and Piety Methods

5. Total RS Curriculum with papers on Church History, Old Testament and New Testament

6. Total CS Curriculum with papers on disciplines

7. Kazantzakis and St. John of the Cross

8. Background articles for RS­1: e.g. Knox, Kierkegaard and Niebuhr

9. Special Readings: Journey to the East' etc.

10. Use of art, music, movies, etc.

B. Format (See Attached Charts)

C. Common Life

  1. Worship

Morning Daily Office ­ with the Order.

Participation in the Office by the students after the first week.

Corporate Solitary ­ Monday through Friday evenings

Individual Solitary ­ Saturday and Sunday evening

2. Meals

Breakfast Scriptures and News

Lunch Structured conversation using as a point of

departure Summer '68 conversations on corporate

life, consensus, etc.

Dinner Kazantzakis and St. John of the Cross Study

(16 sessions each)


3. Work ­ Wednesday 8 A.M. to 12 noon

Wednesday 8 to 12 noon.

The work would be internal such as buffing hall floors, painting 4th floor bedrooms, etc.

4. Obediences ­ Immediately following lunch 1:15 to 1:30 P.M. Suggest yard pickup

5. Informal Conversation time can take place from 1:30 to 2 P.M., just prior to Siesta.

6. Special Days

Wednesday Dinner.

A special college meal (Ur Image) and special guests or activities.

Example: 1st Wednesday ­ Preparation conversation on individual solitary and making of

rood screens

4 Guest evenings ­ Board of Managers, High School House students, Pre­School faculty, etc.

Short experimental films with art form discussion and other art form discussions

Saturdays 4 structured Saturdays to demonstrate the power of intentional celebration and

4 free Saturdays for Chicago explorations. Examples of structured Saturdays:

Ego­Mankind journey, Ur­Image Tour of Art Institute; Movie, Play, Music production,

Journey to the East, etc.

Sundays Loca1 Church attendance and study.

D. Practics

1. Recruitment. 32 peoples will be selected from among movement people, order personnel and seminarians. Efforts will be made to recruit an interracial and international group. In addition to a broad based selected mailing, intentional recruitment must be done in order to secure regional participation from across the nation. Absence from the course will be discouraged.

2. Prerequisites Required: RS­1

Recommended: CS­I, RS­IIIA and CS­IIIA

Considered: Family decision to be the church and involvement in regions.


3. Cost. Adults $250 each

Children $100 each.

If finances are a difficulty, we recommend allowing payment over a period of months.

4. Children. Families will be encouraged to bring their children. Pre­Schoolers will be enrolled in EI schools; public school children, in 5th City schools.

5. Faculty. Four teachers full time. Maintain a faculty/student ration of 1:8

6. Facilities. Basically one classroom would be needed. Housing and classes should either be in the Program Center or on campus with classes held in the chapel basement. In _ to project an academic image of rigor at every point, it is recommended that the School be somewhat removed from the common life of the Order.

7. Group Organization. Projecting a group of 32, the group will be divided into 4 units of 8 members, each of whom will serve as unit leader for one week.


EDUCATION PROGRAM:
General Educational Enablement

ACTION CONSTRUCT:
Publishing Centrum

OVERALL FUNCTION:
To provide denominations 7 local congregations and individual churchmen with resources for an educational program which creates an expanded cultural and religious awareness and enables them to participate in the revolution which is bringing about a NSV and a NRM.

FUNCTIONS:
1. Curriculum Advising ­ informs every churchman by setting a context in which he may appropriate the 20th Century theological and cultural wisdom.

2. Study Guidance ­ approaches every churchman through his devotional life by providing a digest of readings which will set a context for beginning the spirit journey.

3. Visionary Resources ­ provides every church men with data on the evolution of social vehicles and setting a context for participation in social revolution.

4. Global Relations ­ provides documentation for every churchman on the emerging instances of a world society and sets a context for participation in global mission.

STRUCTURES
1. Liaison department ­ channel educational relations with the denominations.

2. Writing Department ­ condense, research and write articles for publication.

3. Publishing House ­ publish materials for impacting churchmen.

4. Reference Center - gather, catalog and dispense educational materials.

(The operation of these structures would require a bookstore, printing facilities, mailing service, office space, and secretarial and bookkeeping help.)

TACTICS:
1. Open denominational structures to our educational resources.

2. Tailor materials for public consumption.

3. Make available comprehensive educational materials for practical use.

4. Establish accessible storehouse of resources.

EDUCATION PROGRAM:
Tractarian Formation

ACTION CONSTRUCT:
Tractarian Formation Team

OVERALL FUNCTION:
The Tractarian Formation Team shall, through the use of mass media education, impact the mass mindset, providing the milieu that permits and indicates the social and religious style in which authentic humanness can take place.

FUNCTIONS:
1. Determine Priorities ­ and develop criteria for priority of: a) 1iving groups; b) means of impact (media); c) frequency of impact; d) edge issues.

2. Prepare Material ­ construct propaganda item in accord with the pre­selected content and the appropriate media.

3. Order Distribution ­ utilize existing communication networks to facilitate and coordinate propaganda distribution.

4. Evaluate Effect ­ interpret and evaluate the actual propaganda effects in relationship to the anticipated propaganda effects.

STRUCTURES:
1. Target Research Bureau ­ is designed to establish the basic context in which the propaganda effort is carried out.

2. Media Production Center ­ facilitates the actual development of the content and form of the propaganda as it is intended for specific groups.

3. Propaganda Direction Centrum ­ coordinates the actual propagandizing efforts to enable it to effectively impact those for whom it is intended.

4. Missional Critique Center ­ evaluates the overall effectiveness of the propaganda system in terms of the missional goals and redirects the propaganda effort in appropriate ways.

TACTICS:
1. Prepares Analyses ­ to determine the criteria for the selection of recipient groups, media and appropriate issues.

2. Operating Decisions ­ to choose the format, conduct inter-departmental consultations and establish the production schedule.

3. Functional Overview ­ to grid the global communication net work, to maintain quality control and to utilize established movement communications network.

4. Establish Results ­ to discern the actual impact of the propaganda, to schedule periodic evaluation, and to interpret the effects.