This may be a little deep, but I’ll give it a crack. I have been thinking a lot about the link between learning and growth.

Isn’t learning one of the most incredible gifts of, and for, humanity? What amazes me and continues to build on my fascination of this topic, is how closely linked ‘learning’ is with growth. When I say growth, I do mean physical growth, but also growth as a person in a cognitive, emotional, social and ethical way (there are many others, but I have not thought at length about categories for this as yet… but this still fascinates me). I am of the view, that one cannot grow with out the strength, resolve, willingness and ability to learn.

I grow through my fascination with the world and what happens in it, I grow with my fascination about my place in this world and how this world affects me and others, and how and what I contribute to this world. As we learn – we grow, as we grow- we learn… these two things are inextricably linked. I believe that this is much the same of our children (although we don’t think like this when we are younger). The way into the future for our children is built on their fascination with the world and their place in this world, and how they interact with it.

These are important lessons to me as I explore how we shape learning and curriculum and how we shape learning growth with ourselves and in our classrooms and make learning authentic and related to the most natural ways to learn.