barry@youthlearning.ca
Barry Smith, Director
Barry Smith has worked with young people that have faced challenges for over 15 years. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a BA. Barry is the Director at CAGE Training & Resources Inc., and the founder of youthlearning.ca. CAGE Training & Resources Inc. produces educational materials and affective learning solutions for all types of organizations. Youthlearning.ca is dedicated to enhancing the potential in children by encouraging an understanding and a love for education. Barry provides strength-based tutoring designed to cultivate the potential of all. He is a published author and a popular speaker to youth and adult groups on topics like bullying and working with aggression in children. Click here to download a copy of Barry's first book: Become An Expert In You: The Fitness & Life Activity Book.
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Walter Smith
Walter is the originator of the theory and practice of affective non-competitive education as a way to unify holistic educational practices. Affective Education is based on the idea that we can design education systems where everyone will be successful if we begin with that policy. It is in contrast with competitive education where there has to be winners and losers because we start out with that alternative policy. Competitive education is devastating for those who end up on the wrong side of the proverbial bell curve. It destroys intitiative. This is especially true for children and youth who have not reached the maturity to fully comprehend the nature of competition.
Affective Education is motivated by natural interest in learning new things and not by competition. It does incorporate competition as an aspect of human nature, but is not a factor in educational assessment. An affective education classroom would be a children's / youth workplace where academics are integrated into an experiential curriculum.
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