Pathfinder Educational Model
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Pathfinder Educational Model
The Pathfinder Educational Model (PEM)TM is a transformative, planet-centered approach to education designed to replace outdated industrial-era systems of education with a modern, scaleable, equitable, socially and culturally contextualized, globally scoped, locally implemented, future-oriented, planet-centered approach to education capable of raising a generation empowered to transform the planet. Rooted in the Pathfinder Pedagogical Framework, emphasizing Post-Capitalist Skills, and leaning heavily on parents, teachers, local community organizations, and a specially trained Pathfinder AI, it prioritizes critical thinking, adaptability, collaboration, and holistic human development. Unlike traditional education models that emphasize standardization, obedience, and rote memorization, PEM fosters empowerment, agency, and self-actualization.
Educational Models
The Pathfinder Educational Model
Related LP Terms
Pathfinder Educational Model > Assembly Line Grading, Assembly Line Model, Educational Framework, Five Barriers to Human Flourishing, Harmonic Social Structure, Seven Components of Human Development
Non-LP Related Terms
Pathfinder Educational Model > Conscientização, Culture of Silence, Dialogic Method, Generative Themes, Love, Empathy, and Hope, Praxis, Problem-Posing Education
Notes
Read all about the model in [https://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Pathfinder_Educational_Model this PathfinderTMarticle series.
The Pathfinder Educational Model (PEM) is not designed to prepare students for survival within a collapsing system—it is designed to equip them with the skills needed to build a new world. Traditional education trains students for obedience, competition, and economic survival within a capitalist framework, but Pathfinder pedagogy recognizes that capitalism is unsustainable and that humanity must transition toward new social, economic, and ecological paradigms.
Readings and Resources
Blum, Susan D. Ungrading. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2020.
Clark, David, and Robert Talbert. Grading For Growth. Routledge, 2023.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 2005.
Gatto, John Taylor. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. New Society Publishers, 2006.
Related LP Content and Courses
Patreon Units
Lightning Path (2024). Parent/Teacher Training. LP 4.7. https://www.patreon.com/collection/640726
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