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ALL NORTH SHORE MUSICIANS, the band Montego Shine returned home last

week to play rock and roll to a large enthusiastic crowd at Sentinel Secon

dary school.

The band are graduates of either Sentinel or Carson Graham schools and the
members of the horn section used to play in the North Vancouver Youth Band. Band

Making students responsible

Revolutionary concept spawned at SFU

Creating an atmosphere designed to challenge
high school students and to instill in them a desire
to learn and initiate projects is a concept spawned
at Simon Fraser University which is close to
becoming a reality in the United States.

“We think we will have a
major impact,” predicts Dr.
Gary Phillips. a member of
SFU’s Education Faculty
and the man who has been
chosen to head implementa-
tion of the concept through
an endeavor known as the

Challenge Education Project
(CEP)

Expected to be the largest
project of its kind in North
America, CEP ois
largely oon the

based
ideas” of

another SFU education
professor, Dr Maurice
Gibbons Gibbons’ concept
which he lkens to the

Australan abonginal rites of
passage to manhood known
as “walkabout.” combines

the acquisition oof oan
formatbon and skills with
personal growth and

development. It shifts the
onus from teacher to student
so that the student takes far
greater responsibility for
what he learns and how he
learnsit.

Philips, who leaves SFU
in May to begin work on
CEP, says the = project's
funding initially covers three
vears of developmental work
based on walkabout-
challenge concepts and
those of Individually Guided
Bducation (IGE), a
philosophy already at) work
in-a number of American
elementary schools Closcty
related lo walkabout
challenge. IGE 9 permits
students to learn at ther own
pace, using their
methods

CEP will begin by

own

“field

testing’ the challenge
concept in selected schools
throughout the American
Midwest. At the end of three
years, Phillips plans to have
a model ready for national
introduction.

According to Gibbons,
challenge education in-
corporates a number of
radical innovations. He
compares the present
educational system with
challenge education on the
following points:

"Schools do more and more

while students do less and
less
“Schools leave an cx

perience vacuum which
students often fill with self
destructive activities
“Challenge education allows
students lo assume responsi
bility for their own learning
“Challenge education
students learn through
Mgorous expemences, as well
as through formal studies
*Parents are less influential
in the lives of their children

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members are; Steve Boultee, drums; Matthew Henderson, guitar; Mike Black, sound;
Jim Hardy, guitar; Steve Watkins, keyboards; Greig McArthur, trombone; Ron
McArthur, lead vocals; Craig Drew, trumpet. (Ian Smith photo)

because of television, peer
groups and other pressures.
*Schools do not challenge
students to do their best.
They emphasize basics,
minimum competency and
mediocrity.

“Schools focus on content
rather than process and
leave students unprepared
for passage to adulthood and
a life of learning
“Challenge education
schools empower parents by
giving them active roles in

the education of their
children

“Challenge education
students pursue excellence

and each student becomes
expertin atleast one field
“Challenge students learn to
perform as adults to earn the
right to graduate

Alter receiving his Phi)
trom Ball University in 1977
Phillips immediately came to
Simon Fraser to work with
Gibbons on the challenge

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