Preamble
Reason
Toyhouse is a aimed at being an idealized and replicable organization structure of learners. The reason for going to any school, is to learn from others, where every participants benefit from the subscribed learning activities. However, today's schools are less ideal, the teachers or school administrations do not have a flexible decision making structure to adjust learning activities according to the needs of learners. We believe that all learners have the rights to leverage available natural resources and openly shared technologies and intellectual content to enrich their lives. They should also be informed of their conflict resolution channels when they engage with any sociable learning activities that might create conflicts in the process. Learners should also be allowed to spend their own financial resources to acquire knowledge, services, or instrumentation that enable them to better learn the desirable subject. Finally, learners should be able to voice their concerns by expressing their opinions in public at will. These basic rights must be honored and become an operating principle to enable not only individual learners, but also organizations composed of these learners to become aware of learning opportunities, and absorb new knowledge from the interactive dynamics of the society.
Purpose
Unfortunately, today's schools are mostly designed around centrally controlled resources, so that learning activities are usually designed around "courses" that are well defined administrative units, that must get permission from a central power system to determine what can and cannot be learned. This administrative structure is usually controlled by a small number of people, who may not be the only rational source of organizational adjustment. This structure, especially the structure of a centrally planned learning system creates the opportunity for teachers and administrators to abuse their administrative powers. This constitution is designed as a generic template for all learners to inform themselves of their basic rights, and also formally state the basis of their decision making processes in a learning process. The detailed constitutional framework would in operational terms describe the procedures and social transaction events that defines how learners might be able to exercise their rights or alter the format or sequence of certain learning processes. We try to incorporate or follow scientifically proven ideas about learning, or learnability from a data-driven or evidence driven viewpoint, so that the entire learning structure itself can be managed as a subject of learning. Most importantly, this constitution is designed to evolve overtime, so that itself will become an object to be transformed by righteous learners at their will.
Reference
- How to write a constitution by WikiHow
