Agile Career Managment and Entrepreneurship Programs
Seamless engagements between formal education, informal learning, entrepreneurship, workforce retooling, career management, and quality-of-life balance.
Collaboration with EDSN fills semantic voids in useful co-learning and co-construction of knowledge with human and non-human agents.
Career Managment Through Purposeful Continuous Learning
Plexlearning is the practice of living a life shaped by purposeful continuous learning. It addresses semantic and epistemological gaps in conventional schooling and educational paradigms by providing intellectual, financial, sociocultural, and political scaffolding that supports human flourishing. The Education for Development and Support Network (EDSN) Foundation harnesses the affordances of Plexlearning to empower small neighborhood community groups to pursue career management and improved quality of life through sustained, collaborative learning with both human and non-human (technological) agents.
EDSN Peer Evaluation and Self-Study Improves Career Sucess
The Education for Development and Support Network (EDSN) develops research-to-practice frameworks that make trusted peer evaluations and meaningful self-studies accessible to small groups of individuals. Diana McLain Smith, in Remaking the Space Between Us: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Future for All, captures the spirit of these frameworks: “None of us see ourselves as others do, because we all see ourselves from the inside out, not from the outside in, as others see us.”1 This principle grounds EDSN’s efforts to help groups of individuals navigate engagements across formal education, informal learning, entrepreneurship, workforce retooling, career management, and quality-of-life balance.
Agile career management and entrepreneurship demand mindful living, and mindful living requires purposeful engagement with people who see the world differently. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt affirms this point in The Atlantic: “People who think differently and are willing to speak up if they disagree with you make you smarter, almost as if they are extensions of your own brain.”2
By integrating self-study with constructive peer evaluation, EDSN enables individuals to sharpen their interpretive capacities, challenge assumptions, and cultivate resilience. This approach not only improves career success but also strengthens the collective capacity of communities to thrive in dynamic, technologically mediated societies.
McLain Smith, Diana. Remaking the Space Between Us: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Future for All (p. 31). Ballast Books. Kindle Edition.
Jonathan Haidt, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid,” Atlantic, April 11, 2022.