The model
WSA holds that an education is complete only when knowledge, capability and real-world application are developed together, and treats any one of the three on its own as insufficient.
Its role
It is the standard every Exploration is written against and the reason WSA rejects both content-only schooling and skills-only alternatives.
Relationships
Knowledge lives in the Worlds, capability in the twelve future capabilities, application in fieldwork, projects and the Atlas.
In practice
Knowing what a lever is, being able to reason about one, and having actually moved something heavy that would not otherwise have moved.
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Follow the Interest
Follow the Interest is the WSA method in which a child's genuine fascination becomes the starting point for se…
Interest Pathways
An Interest Pathway is the structured route by which a single interest opens into multiple fields of knowledge…
The 10 Worlds
The ten Worlds are WSA's permanent knowledge architecture: ten interconnected fields through which any interes…
The Atelier Path
The Atelier Path is the personalised route one child takes through the Worlds, shaped by what they have actual…
What is WSA?
The whole model in one place.