Chaos all around

We pretend otherwise, but:
Education is pure chaos!

Pretentious circle of chairs

At first sight, the famous circle of chairs pretends that non-formal education is an orderly system, full of predictable harmony. What an illusion!

» Non-formal education is chaos at its best.

The contrast between the image and the core of nonformal learning is a wonderful illustration of the dialectics between order and chaos, harmony and disorder. And indeed, educators have much to gain from chaos theory.

Chaos of learning

In Greek mythology, the world wide web reveals to us, khaos meant “gaping void” or “nothingness” and was — at least by some — thought to be the primary source of all things.

In contemporary mathematics, chaos describes dynamical systems with a sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

More commonly, this is described as the butterfly effect, a term coined by mathematician and meterologist Edward Lorenz: ...

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Lights out in 2050?

Europe energised…
What is our future?

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Well formed and performed

First impressions from the
UNIQUE seminar in Berlin

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nfe goes w³ // finally…

non-formal education
goes world wide web!

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Maps of Europe

Ancient, old, weird, amusing…
Informative, sad, confusing…

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Made to be broken?

What are rules for?
That’s what you think.

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Time to bite the bullet

A call to all youth professionals
to finally start some blogging…

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So long Facebook

I have left Facebook,
and it feels better every minute.

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