Dr. Fredric Posner, Ph.D.
Fredric "Rick" Posner, Ph.D. has a background in open, democratic , alternative schools as well as special education. His dissertation (1989) was entitled A Study of Self-Directed Learning, Perceived Competence, and Personal Orientation Among Students in an Open, Alternative High School. Rick is currently working on a book about the lives of the graduates from Jefferson County Open School in Lakewood, Colorado called Lives of Passion, Schools of Hope. Areas of interest and study include:

  • Self-Directed learning
  • Intrinsic motivation
  • Systems of advisement for personal growth
  • Self-assessment
  • Building communities of learners
  • Democratic school governance
  • Experiential learning
  • Lifelong learning
  • Learning to learn
  • Rites-of-passage transitions-The Walkabout
  • Issues of empowerment in school communities
  • Discovering the joy of learning
  • Demonstrated competence
  • Leadership in collaborative school communities
  • Transformational learning
  • Creating open educational alternatives
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The 5 goals of the Open School

  1. Rediscover the joy of learning.

  2. Engage in the search for meaning in your life.

  3. Understand and deal with the world that is.

  4. Prepare for the world that might be.

  5. Help to create the world that ought to be.
For further information contact:

Fredric G. Posner
31450 Manitoba Drive
Evergreen, Colorado. 80439
(home) 303-674-6038 (cell) 303-929-5064
e-mail fgig@earthlink.net
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