Global Harmony Association (GHA)

April 2008

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10. World Harmony/Peace Academy and General

Harmonious Education in an Information Society

Conception Project

Dr. Leo Semashko, project head and

79 participants from 22 countries:

From Russia – 35;

From other countries – 45.

Project publications:

In Russian: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=316,

In English: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=277,

In Spanish: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=347,

In Chinese: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=377,

In Romanian:

http://www.peacefromharmony.org/file/5157/WHPA_Project_in_Romanian.pdf

FRAGMENT

If we are ever to have real peace in this world

we shall have to begin with the children

Mahatma Gandhi

We must prepare with the revolution of education, which will be unavoidable if we want to face the new conditions of understanding and controlling them. Without a completely new approach in education, our youth will not be completely equipped to face the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Education is the most powerful weapon which you

can use to change the World

Nelson Mandela

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed

citizens can change the world.Indeed,

it is the o­nly thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Abstract

1. The World Harmony Academy (WHA) idea was stated and discussed among the Magna Carta of Harmony co-authors for the first time in the time period of March through May 2007. The WHA first variantwas discussed by 19 Russian members of the Global Harmony Association (GHA) from November 14, 2007, to January 28, 2008, when it was sent to the Russian leaders: President Vladimir Putin, Russian presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev, and Governor Valentine Matvienko of St.-Petersburg with the offer to create the first WHA in St.-Petersburg. The project was discussed during of a year. At this time, the number of participants has grown to 80 people from 22 countries. It is the subject of over 200 suggestions, remarks and additions that arrived after the project’s publication and which appear as separate book in Russian and English languages published in 2008.

2. The Conception project provides a basis for development of the standard projects to be realized: 1. The Academy curricula, 2. Architecture, which includes construction of the academic town, 3. Finance or Business to fund and fiscally manage the project. The conceptual project is supplemented by practical projects, which also brings them to life. For these purposes the Transnational Educational Building Corporation could be created. This corporation would build the WHA standard academic towns worldwide as well as the standard atomic power stations. With this will begin globalization of harmonious education.

3. The WHA project was elaborated with a focus o­n localization of the first standard Academy in St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation. However the WHA branches could be created simultaneously worldwide especially in large cities. The full realization of this project o­n a global scale will require from 30 to 60 years.

4. The WHA project is a key, long-term and strategic project for Global Harmony Association. This Project unites the Association’s other projects and expresses its basic way to harmonious peace and society through harmonious education.

1. Definition

1.1. World Harmony Academy (WHA) Main Idea:

The information and harmonious society that is soon to replace the industrial society requires not traditional o­ne-sided but all-sided harmonious education appropriate to a new society of universal information and new priority value of harmony. Harmonious education is based o­n a science of social and individual harmony: Tetrasociology(see it outline in the book end).

1.2. Brief definition. The World Harmony Academy is the beginning, source and generator of general harmonious education all over the world in this new century. General harmonious education is an education of children, youth and new generations as the citizens of a global harmonious civilization o­n the basis of universal scientific knowledge of social and individual harmony.

2. Objective tendencies of harmonization, generating necessity of harmonious education and World Harmony Academy (WHA)

Conclusion from the objective tendencies of harmonization: The World Harmony Academy will inevitably be created. The o­nly question is: where and when? The country that creates the first WHA will ensure its recognition as an innovative, harmonious, leading developer in the 21^st century and as a cradle of world harmony.

2.2. Prizes for the country that creates the first WHA:

1.Global leadership in the field of super technologies of harmonious education will ensure leadership in the development of an innovative, harmonious way with the additional benefit of gaining social capital among a new quality of the world’s population.

2.World priority in development of the scientific theory of harmonization, standards of harmonious education, and preparation of the appropriate staff.

3.The mission of being the world leader in global harmonization of multi-polar development as well as the privilege to offer to the G8 and United Nations appropriate initiatives to ensure harmonious peace o­n the planet.

4.Overcoming a deficiency in the new humanitarian, educational and social technologies.

5.Fulfilling state policy by a new quality of economic, political and social harmonization, which can become a national ideal for any country.

6.Generating new state educational and social strategies of the 21st century o­n the basis of uniting and inspiring the value of harmony as happiness among youth who feel demoralized. This value provides the highest motivation for harmonious innovation behaviour.

7.Rapid growth of a positive international image.

8.Harmonization of inter-ethnic relations in the country and also eradication of the ideology of genocide, divisionism, xenophobia and fundamentalism through general harmonious education and investments in the social capital.

9.Free-of-charge schools that teach harmonious education, which will lead to eradication of illiteracy among all children, including those of poverty-ridden families.

10. The gradual solution of social problems of poverty, criminality,

corruption, terror, violence, etc. o­n the basis of harmonious thinking and its technologies.

3. WHA historical bases: religious, philosophical,

pedagogical and scientific

Harmonious education and Harmony Academy are development o­n a qualitatively new basis of a science of social and individual harmony the holistic or alternative and humanistic and value education. The roots of holistic education can be traced back to several major contributors. Originating theorists include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, Johann Pestalozzi, Friedrich Froebel, and Francisco Ferrer. More recent theorists are Rudolf Steiner, Maria Montessori, Francis Parker, John Dewey, John Caldwell Holt, George Dennison Kieran Egan, Howard Gardner, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Paul Goodman, Ivan Illich, Paulo Freire and many others. This pedagogical direction demands that we consider the person completely and build his or her education according to nature and society as a whole and its aim be happiness and the higher spiritual purposes, such as compassion and peace.

4. Global Education as Harmonious Education

(2009 Addition)

The o­ne-dimensional industrial civilization, with its priority of maximum profit, demands the o­ne-dimensional human (Herbert Marcuse) and o­ne-dimensional education limited to narrow specialization, which is an industrial priority. The processes of globalisation, which started to occur in 1990 as a result of the collapse of the USSR and elimination of its main barrier, demand that the global citizen and global education develop in tandem with globalisation. This interconnection of both processes gives them a Sociocybernetics perspective. Both processes testify to the birth of the new harmonious civilization going o­n to change the industrial civilization and create the new harmonious education necessary for the harmonious civilization. The general deep essence of both processes is the result of the global social harmony, which alone is capable of providing societal survival, sustainable development and prosperity for all nations of the united interconnected (global) world. These processes are realized and analyzed o­n the basis of the scientific theory of social and individual harmony: Tetrasociology, presented in 19 projects of the Global Harmony Association, from which the project “Harmonious Civilization Universal Declaration” is the crowning jewel.

Even though harmonious education has not been a component of an industrial civilization, its embryos have been intensively developed in the most different pedagogical schools and the educational directions, which are known by various names: integrated, holistic, alternative, humanistic, and valued education.

The sources of these concepts go back to French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss teacher Johann Pestalozzi (1746–1827), and were proceeded in the 19th and 20th centuries by the works of American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), Italian doctor Maria Montessori (1870–1952), American philosopher John Dewey (1859–1952), Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, (1875–1961), Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich (1926–2002), Brazilian teacher Paolo Freire (1921–1997) and many others. This pedagogical direction demands that society consider the complete person and build its educational systems according to the concept of a unified and holistic nature and society.

Some modern examples include:

The Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education established in India in 1943. This education is based o­n understanding that the person is an integral essence who unites five aspects: physical, vital, psychic, mental and spiritual.

Integral Elementary School in San Diego, California, USA, has the intention of “Creating Lifelong Learners – Mind, Body, Heart & Soul.” The school uses innovative holistic education approaches and methodologies inspired by the Integral Education philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.

Harmony Science Academies is a college-preparatory charter school system of 14 schools in Texas and Louisiana, USA, originating in 2000. However, their harmony is limited by mathematical and natural sciences.

Soka University was created in Japan by Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda in 1971 o­n the basis of humanistic pedagogics of known Japanese teacher Makiguchi, the author of the Value Creating Educational System that proclaims “the purpose of education is to lead students' happiness” o­n the basis of harmony.

However, despite this rich background, the scientific concept of “harmonious education” has not developed until now. The reason for this was the absence of the science of social harmony. Its occurrence in Tetrasociology has allowed it to define a scientifically harmonious formation as a balance of the four spheres of social and individual harmony: informing, learning, teaching and upbringing of the person throughout all his life, which is necessary and acceptable for people of all nations, religions and cultures without exception. This is caused by the fact that all societies, nations and people are, in an equal measure, affected and impacted by the deep structure of social and individual harmony. Because this is so, harmonious education, by definition, is global education. In turn, global education can be o­nly harmonious education and not any another. The basic aspects of this education are opened in the GHA project: “World Harmony/Peace Academy and General Harmonious Education in an Information Society”.

5. Mission, purposes, motivation, ideological platform and WHA staff

5.1. Mission of the World Harmony Academy:

To scientifically prove the inevitability of a global conscious harmonization of aninformation civilization through sphere classes, which are the actors and creators of world survival, indestructible peace, harmony and prosperity;

To create the worldview and disciplinary bases for formation among youth and future generations of the GREAT DREAM: HARMONY-HAPPINESS as a priority value;

5.4. The WHA purposes:

1.Preparation of necessary science, information, personnel and organizational resources for a system of general harmonious education.

2.Development within youth and new generations of harmonious consciousness and worldview as submitted in the Magna Carta of Harmony and other documents of the Global Harmony Association.

3.Preparation of diplomatic experts o­n an international level with bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees for all spheres of employment, capable of professionally harmonizing with all branches and institutions of these spheres in any human community in all the different countries and local civilizations of the world.

4.Preparation and approval within national and international governmental institutions of the list of new harmonizing specialties that will add to the world list of specialties.

5.Preparation and approval within national and international educational institutions of the list of new educational harmonizing disciplines for schools, colleges and universities.

6.Retraining and raising the level of educators’ skill in all educational institutions o­n harmonizing level of humanitarian disciplines.

7.Scientific research of spheres of society and persons, sphere classes and appropriate rules of harmonization in order to maintain a high quality of education among harmonization experts.

8.Development within WHA of the International Tetrasociological School of scientific researches.

5.5. Result and personality preferences.

The holders of harmonious education degrees favorably differ in the following qualities: they have a universal harmonious worldview, a dream about harmony - happiness as being a top-level vital guide, a priority of harmony values, an aversion to violence and enmity, a desire for a harmonious way of life and harmonious development of the personality, a wish to share ownership of universal information, an ability for integral harmonious decisions, a want for free orientation in any social situation and institution, a skill for innovative harmonious thinking, a respect for social responsibility, an aspiration to harmonious cooperation and partnership, a readiness to engage in a harmonious business activity, and an ability for harmonization in any sphere.

5.6. Peacebuilding motivation and WHA necessity.

In the world, there are thousands of military schools and academies, including "Royal", "Imperial", "Presidential" and so o­n, that teach youth to destroy and kill. At the same time, this same world does not have a World Peace Academy that would teach social harmony to prevent wars, poverty, enmity and other destructive extremes, pathologies and traumas of humankind. The WHA fills this cultural, educational and humanitarian gap.

5.8. Consolidating scientific platform of the WHA. This platform
is made with a new social science of an information society, which
is Tetrasociology, and the global consciousness (worldview) of
social harmony submitted in the Magna Carta of Harmony (). Global consciousness is based o­n pluralism and keeps a mental and cultural diversity of the world communities within the framework of harmony. The Magna Carta of Harmony is the foundation document for the Academy o­n the basis of which all other documents are created: Statutes, Curriculums, Internal Norms, Competitive rules of teachers, etc.

5.9. Interconfessional character of the WHA. The importance aspect of the WHA is the interconfessional harmony provided the harmonious organization of education and a life in the Academy. Interconfessional harmony is served in Academy through the special theoretical courses of religious harmonization, fundamental studying of all world religions, practical training in the interconfessional groups, by mastering common languages of communication—Esperanto and English—and creation of the common cultural and art programs and so o­n. Interconfessional character is made in prayerful places of the basic world religions and in theperformance of daily religious rituals during students’ and teachers’ free time. At the same time in the WHA, there will be respect for the All Religion Prayers and World Unity Prayers per the example of Jagdish Gandhi’s City Montessori School in India.

5.10. Tolerance as an initial step of harmony. Tolerance is the main requirement and a cultural basis of the WHA. Harmony begins with tolerance. Students or teachers who are not capable of establishing harmonious or even tolerant partner relations among themselves and who are constantly conflicting among themselves and with other ethnic and religious groups are excluded from the Academy or assigned by the special commission for a probation and preparatory period (as for this work out the special rules). It is obvious, that not all modern people, including the believers who have been brought up in a traditional industrial spirit, are capable to be trained and to teach in the WHA and to live under laws of harmony in it.

5.13.Harmonization as an innovative way of humanity development. Realization of harmonization as an innovative way for each country and humanity development requires a powerful modern pedagogical and research center in the WHA, capable to be the generator of general harmonious education and to train experts o­n harmonization for all spheres, including for various structures of authority. The WHA is the first educational establishment of new system of general harmonious education, its source and generator.

6. WHA structure, new specialities, disciplines and features of
educationalprocess

6.1. The WHA structure is the four Faculties of Harmonization, appropriate to four spheres and sphere classes of humankind and each society and community. The tetrasociological laws system, formulated above, is a scientific basis of WHA structure and teaching contents in it. Social and individual harmony is defined by four spheres, which correspond to four faculties of Academy, and also organization of knowledge in sphere blocks (groups, complexes) and its teaching by each faculty member each year. Each faculty member prepares the new experts and teachers o­n harmonization within the framework of traditional professions (see list of professions and specialties below). Raising the level of o­ne’s skill of the school and university teachers o­n harmonizing block of the humanitarian disciplines are realize at the first stage (2 years).

Each faculty member unites a number of the Departments of Harmonization. Each department is a sub-faculty as the basic block of profiling disciplines, which unites a complex of the specialized subject’s lecture courses of harmonization. The departments list expresses a conscious and active development of new scientific disciplines and directions of teaching in an information society as opposed to their chaotic occurrence and passive development in an industrial society. The list of departments and main subjects/disciplines of Academy indicates the maximum desired goal, for today. Their practical introduction will be realized within the Academy’s annual development plans. The basic blocks filling vary with time in connection with shifting social and scientific conditions.

6.2.General list of the Departments (basic blocks of main subjects/disciplines) o­n the WHA Faculties:

Faculty 1: Harmonization of Sociosphere (Sociosphere Harmonization):

1.Theory of social harmony and harmonization of social institutions

2.Theory of individual harmony and harmonization

3.Harmonization of social anthropology

4.Acting technique for harmonization of behavior

5.Psychological harmonization (TetraPsychology)

6.Harmonious education and harmonization of education (TetraEducation)

7.Harmonization of Pedagogics and Pedagogics of harmony (TetraPedagogics)

8.Harmonization of social work

9.Harmonization of children's preschool education, upbringing and development

10.Harmonization of school education, upbringing and development

11.Harmonization of university education), upbringing and development

12.Family harmonization and harmony of family

13.Harmonization of medicine and harmonious medicine

14.Aikido as harmonization of physical resistance

15.Harmonization of sports and sports harmony

16.Harmonizing kinds of sports (Sports Department)

17.Harmonization of unity of four spheres, markets and classes by social resources and technologies.

Faculty 2: Harmonization of Infosphere (Infosphere Harmonization):

1.Culture of harmonious peace and tolerance

2.Golden Rule and harmonization of the world religions

3.History of world culture of harmony

4.Philosophy of harmony and harmonization

5.History of harmonious epochs, peoples and cultures of humankind

6.Dialectic modeling for harmony and harmonization; harmony of dialectic modeling

7.Tetrasociology: the scientific theory and sociology of harmony of an information society

8.Tetrasociological studies

9.History and importance of the site "Peace from harmony"

10."Magna Carta of Harmony": the contents and global meaning

11."Harmonious Era Calendar": the contents, world importance and development

12.International bilingualism of Esperanto and English: +Russian (for the WHA Russian branch)

13.System linguistics and harmonization

14.Art of harmony and harmonization of art

15.Harmonization of dialogue and dialogue in harmony

16.Harmonization of mass media

17.Information theory in harmonization

18.Sphere Statistics of harmonization (TetraStatistics)

19.Harmonizing information technologies for youth 10-25 years

20.Harmonization of consciousness (TetraConsciousness)

21.Natural-science and mathematical bases of harmony and harmonization

22.Synergetics of harmony and harmonization of Synergetics (TetraSynergetics)

23.Sociocybernetics of harmony and harmonization of Sociocybernetics

24.Socionics of harmony and harmonization of Socionics

25.Consulting harmonization and harmonization of Consulting

26.Harmonizing creativity (literature, poetry, painting, music, design …)

27.Harmonization of unity of four spheres, markets and classes by informational resources and technologies.

Faculty 3. Harmonization of Orgsphere (Orgsphere Harmonization):

1.Theory of harmonizing and harmonious organizations (TetraOrganizations)

2.Harmonization of democracy (TetraDemocracy)

3.Harmonization of law (TetraLaw)

4.Suffrage of children

5.Harmonization of disarmament and international security

6.Political harmonization (TetraPolicy)

7.Governmental and Parliamentary harmonization (TetraGovernment, TetraParliament)

8.Harmonization of management (TetraManagement)

9.Financial harmonization (TetraFinance)

10.Harmonization of PR

11.Harmonization of conflict resolution and conflict resolution in harmony

12.Harmonization of political psychology and psychology of political harmony

13.Harmonization of the multipolar global order and international relations

14.Global Harmony Association: importance for social гармонизации

15.Building of social harmony in the European Union

16.Building of social harmony in China

17.Building of the Eurasian harmony

18.Building of social - political “sobornost” (harmony) in Russia

19.Specificity of transition to social harmony of different groups of the countries

20.Leadership in social harmony

21.Practice of harmonization in various organizations of the Global Harmony Association

22.Harmonization of unity of four spheres, markets and classes by organizational resources and technologies.

Faculty 4. Harmonization of TechnoSphere (Economic Harmonization):

1.Economic harmonization (TetraEconomics)

2.Marketing harmonization (TetraMarketing)

3.Harmonization of consumption (TetraConsumption)

4.Harmonization of export and import (TetraExportImport)

5.Ecological harmonization (TetraEcology)

6.Harmonization of Technics and harmonious Technics (TetraTechnics)

7.Harmonizing technical creativity (home crafts, needlework, technical modeling etc.)