jacob on the blog wrote:Strongly individualistic persons focus on the private, the for-profit companies, as it allows them the greatest benefits to thrive. Social or group-oriented persons focus on the public, the city, and national values. And the non-profit sector dealing with universally human values like education, religion, and health.
From this perspective, it becomes fairly clear, at least to me, that any economic system that concentrates on just one sector is bound to make some people unhappy and thus unproductive. A viable system would thus have all three sectors represented.
This popped up happenstance on the blog feed today. Happy coincidence, because almost exactly what I was aiming at in my muddled manner.
jacob wrote: The postmodern conclusion that all perspectives are equally valid manifest as the Law of Jante in which no opinion is better than any other opinion.
It does seem highly doubtful that all perspectives are equally valid, but recent research in educational practice has revealed that given VERY high level social skills, the group brain will prove more intelligent than its most intelligent member. (IOW, even the most intelligent member of any social grouping can become even more intelligent through process of engaging in VERY high level social interaction.)The basis of these VERY high level social skills is akin to internal motivation towards co-operation. I don't really think this is necessarily a huge leap from the individualistic perspective of Orange, because it is assumed in market capitalism. It's beneficial to all to trade goods in the marketplace, so why is it not beneficial to all to exchange ideas, insights, and varying perspectives at the Green meeting table?
jacob wrote:The strict rule-bound hierarchical system that was developed by Blue in the form of religion is now practiced in Orange and Green in the form of rising through the grades of primary and secondary school as long as one obeys the commandments of "sit down, shut up, face front, listen to the teacher, do your homework, raise your hand before you talk".
This regressive style of education is no longer deemed optimal in most reasonably affluent contexts. I have taught in schools in the better neighborhoods of the most educated city in the U.S., and it is assumed that children there for the most part have already absorbed a good deal of Green and Yellow prior to age 6, but they must also be granted adequate slack for natural phases of development. So, for instance, there is a subtle but important difference in the way children go through the "princess" phase and the "rough housing" phase in a school in a neighborhood that is primarily Yellow vs. primarily Red. This is why the common practice of coming down heavy-handed Blue on poor kids in Red neighborhoods is of debatable merit. Obviously, if an educator is only operating from maybe Blue/Orange herself, there is no other option, but when an educator (or leader in other context) is operating from Green/Yellow, and, therefore has the option of variety of approaches, "heavy-handed Blue" might just be the sub-optimal default where lack of Patience meets lack of Trust.
The example of the turn-school-into-business-for-a-day exercise that you described is a good way to engage students with more individualistic outlooks. Small scale school economies in which students can earn tickets or tokens which they trade in for loot such as mechanical pencils and stickers are recommended practice. The number one privilege students hope to earn these-a-days is free time on their phones. Students who are more socially motivated may benefit from activities such as age differentiated tutoring opportunities and/or community engagement activities such as having 8th grade rake leaves for the elderly.
Anyways, circling back around to blog quote above and actual topic of this thread, my question would be how are all three sectors; private, public, and non-profit meant to be included in "ERE?" My general concern being that if there is not a Green or, perhaps, Turquoise answer to this question, then the default is going to have to be Blue. For simple, specific instance, what would be the "ERE" solution to the problem of dealing with the existence in community of a cognitively impaired young adult male with some reflexive tendencies towards violence and an 8 year old girl exposed to Zika virus in utero?
The only solution I can come up with, which might also address internal motivation of Green team (as described by Axel Heyst) is promotion of freedom to form ones own non-profits or foundations and/or freeing up of time towards direct volunteer activities. This might also go some ways towards fixing the problem of ennui due to lack of "freedom to do something meaningful."