From the Principal
.... Belonging & Community
Framework documents and graphics are designed for organisations to use as ready reckoners, maps or guides. They are often over-simplified representations of approaches taken in complex situations. The pastoral care of our students, staff and families is among some of the most complex work that we do in schools.
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The Pastoral Care Framework leads us into that complex work, and is based on a range of related framework documents and their supporting theories. Psychologist, Abraham Maslow proposed that in one’s journey to becoming fully human, there is a ‘hierarchy of needs’ to be fulfilled. He says that we first need to satisfy our physical needs and provide for safety as preconditions to belonging and love. All other considerations such as the development of the self and relations with others is predicated on the centrality of love and belonging. It is only then that we are able to become everything that we are capable of becoming. After we know that we are loved and belong, we are able to enter into the growth that develops with good learning. |
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Similar to the triangular representation proposed in Maslow’s Hierarchy, is a learning theory proposed by psychologist Benjamin Bloom. Bloom’s Taxonomy shows that as we develop our learning we move from simple to complicated processes. The aim or outcome of well applied learning is to move the student from recall of facts, to understanding and application of ideas, formation of concepts, and eventually to new and original work. The pinnacle of our learning aspirations is to create, or re-create the world in new and beneficial ways. |
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Image Source: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/ |
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Lumen’s Pastoral Care Framework captures the importance for students, staff and families to understand that belonging is at the heart of what we must be as a learning community. We can’t do Bloom’s before we have done Maslow’s, and we must be completely intentional as we aspire to be the light of Christ. Image Source: Lumen Christi's Pastoral Care Framework |
