Karl Jaeger (OFP)
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 Karl Jaeger |
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| Born | 12 April 1930 Ohio, US |
| Occupation | educator, writer, artist |
Karl Jaeger (born 12 April 1930) is an educator, writer and artist. Karl graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Education from Ohio State University and a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University.
Karl Jaeger is currently Co-founder, Trustee and Chairman of Our Future Planet (OFP),[1] Our Future Planet is an innovative website and online community with a worldwide Citizenship. The mission of Our Future Planet is to provide an environment for people to create a better planet to live on and to share innovative approaches to enhance the quality, liveability and beauty of the Earth. Citizens can create profiles and add their own proposals on an Ideas Globe and join in discussions with other Citizens on WikiVisions.”.[2] Other Trustees of Our Future Planet are Samantha Harvey,[3] Jean Houston and James Gillis Lengel.[4]
Karl has been the creator of several community design projects including the Cambridge Charter School system a student-centred secondary school which received approval from the Massachusetts Department of Education on 14 March 1996.
Karl is Founder and Executive Director of the International School of America established in 1958, recently renamed the International Honors Program.[5] The International School of America organises 8 month multi-country study abroad programs for university students to maximise the educational benefits from international travel[6].. Students stay with host families in six to nine different destinations during an eight-month academic year learning about social, urban and rural organizations, value systems, family structure, sustainability, ecology, anthropology and educational systems. Karl has previously taught and led five travel programs around the globe for the International School of America.
The International School of America relies upon the leadership of outstanding academics with extensive field experience and a real talent for working closely with their students. Previous program leaders and members have included:
Edgar Snow, international journalist, Philip Appleman and Marjorie Appleman, Indiana University, Huston Smith, MIT, Gregory Bateson, University of Hawaii, Robert Gardner, Harvard and Edward Goldsmith, publisher, The Ecologist magazine.
On 14 March 1996, the International School of America received approval for a Charter School from the Massachusetts Department of Education using Jaeger's student-centred educational system.
Karl is an active member of the arts and his kinetic sculptures are presented in many major museums in the world. Karl is currently designing an Habitable Sculpture in Maine, USA. It is an abstract work of garden sculpture that people can walk through and even live in. The walk through sculpture offers a series of discoveries – both outside and inside and there are different views from each area of the sculpture – there are views of the mountains other views of rocks and trees and water building up into a complete view of mountains, rocks and natural habitats from the glass enclosed spaces.
The garden and the Habitable Sculpture are linked together by glass openings with their own alterable degrees of varied apertures. The edifice is also a round theatre with dramatic events triggered either by nature during the day and night and by electric illumination of the garden elements or visual movement within the mirrored cube.
Karl is also an avid collector of postcards and has over 80, 000 postcards on different themes collected from around the world.
[edit] Notes and references
- National Geographic Magazine, July 1962: 36 page description of the International School of America’s round-the-world trip.
- ^ http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/
- ^ "About OFP". Our Future Planet. http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/about.
- ^ "Samantha Harvey". http://www.samanthaharvey.com/.
- ^ "James Gillis Lengel". http://www.bu.edu/jlengel/resume.html/.
- ^ "International Honors Program". http://www.ihp.edu/.
- ^ "Study As You Go". Time Magazine. December 14, 1959. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894358,00.html.
