A summary of a micro teach with Primož by Andrew Zionts. Ecology is a science which explores interactions among organisms and their interactions with the environment. Drawing an illustration on the ground of a number of elements such as sun, rain, plants, soil, bee, spider, fox, rabbit, fungi, flower, to represent the following features of… Continue reading Micro-teach session: Basics of Ecology
Category: Meetings
Next Meeting in Denmark
The next EPT meeting will be in Denmark, at the intentional community Friland, on 26th of May to 1st of June 2014. We look forward to welcoming you all here! The focus of the meeting will be around finalising the Teachers’ Handbook and the other primary activities, outreach beyond the permateachers’ group, as well as… Continue reading Next Meeting in Denmark
Spain Meeting – Sunday 29 Sept 2013
The visit to Permaculture Monsant What a treat it was to enjoy the learning adventure at Permaculture Monsant. Our hosts were just wonderful people. More to come about the visit and what we learned. In the meanwhile, a few photos.
Short presentation of the venue in Denmark
The venue for the 6th meeting in the partnership is located in Denmark at the intentional community Friland. To view a very short presentation of the site and some keywords about our focus, click here on this link to open a pdf: EPT Denmark Friland presentation
Cultivating Learning in the Future
During the 5th EPT meeting in Spain from 24th till 28th September in Mas Franch we have identified with a World café technique which are the questions and answers leading the partnership to its future activities after the end of the Leonardo Da Vinci’s funding in July 2014. Here is the result from the Cultivate… Continue reading Cultivating Learning in the Future
Navigation News
‘Navigation’ is a System 4 Meta-System Support in the Viable System Model. By Davie Phillips The objective of Navigation is to monitor the outside world in order to identify opportunities that could further the aims of the IPT project and potential threats to its viability. It will build relationships with stakeholders and strategic partners outside… Continue reading Navigation News
Where it all started
The Partnership’s kick-off meeting was held in August 2012 in Escherode near Kassel in Germany. Helder Valente shares this video of impressions of that first meeting.
Can Masdeu
Spain Meeting – Saturday 28 Sept 2013
Day 5 was a long one, with most people moving from Mas Franch to Can Masdeu, where we enjoyed a site tour (along with another group of American students) and an incredible meal before heading to Barcelona centre to visit Aurea Social and learn more about that project. The day ended on the beach where… Continue reading Spain Meeting – Saturday 28 Sept 2013
Spain Meeting – Friday 27 Sept 2013
Day four was more restful, but the schedule endlessly busy with meetings on the future of the partnership, collaborating with others, and feeding back on the days gone by, interspersed with ‘contemplation in motion’ (shown right) and witnessing many people hit by a ‘zombie virus’. For the body, activities included collecting firewood in the forest,… Continue reading Spain Meeting – Friday 27 Sept 2013
Spain Meeting – Thursday 26 Sept 2013
Day three was packed with another round of micro-sessions and inputting materials to The Compost (‘Collection of Materials about Permaculture in Order to Support Teachers’), a site visit to Ecollavors Seed Saving project, an Open Space and of course, lovely foraged food and meals prepared by a Barcelona collective! The day’s micro-teaching sessions included: Basics… Continue reading Spain Meeting – Thursday 26 Sept 2013
Introducing How to Teach Patterns with Kirsty
(Note: This session would be best to give early in a PDC. The session plan for this session can be found at the bottom under “Resources”) Time needed: Best as a one-hour session, possibly longer. It can be flexible to fit the time available. Introduce the topic of patterns to the class and state why… Continue reading Introducing How to Teach Patterns with Kirsty
Introducing How to Teach Inputs & Outputs with Joe Atkinson
P108 in the Permaculture Teachers Guide has a full class plan for this exercise. Time needed: Best as a one-hour session, possibly longer. It can be flexible to fit the time available. This activity can sit in different sessions. This is usually one of the first sessions on a PDC. Good to use to introduce… Continue reading Introducing How to Teach Inputs & Outputs with Joe Atkinson
Educational Structures
The objectives of the Educational Structures group are: To share information about various national permaculture education systems and qualifications frameworks; To establish a pan-European network of permaculture teachers and organisations; To mutually support the national organisations to form networks to set up or improve their educational systems and structures; To support in developing organisational structures… Continue reading Educational Structures
Spain Meeting – Wednesday 25 Sept 2013
Day two is flying by and has been packed with micro-teaching sessions, writing, collating and inputting materials to the website, progress with using VSM (the Viable Systems Model), a lecture on Systems Thinking and more. We’re beginning to capture the micro-sessions in text, images and videos, as resources in our Teacher’s Manual. The sessions included:… Continue reading Spain Meeting – Wednesday 25 Sept 2013
Sample Session: Permaculture Ethics
Given on Wed 25 Sept 2013 by Joe Atkinson, UK, at Mas Franch, Spain A french write-up of this workshop is also live. Opening question: The teacher asks if the students know the ethics of permaculture, and if they can explain what they mean for them. Afterwards, the teacher summarises the main points, and can… Continue reading Sample Session: Permaculture Ethics
Livelihoods in Permaculture
Tuesday 24 Sept 2013 – Mas Franch, Spain On the first day of the EPT Spain meeting, Davie Philip hosted a session entitled: “Refocusing on the future – how do we get paid to do the work that we love and that we know needs to be done?” This discussion highlighted the objectives and aims… Continue reading Livelihoods in Permaculture
Spain Meeting – Tuesday 24 Sept 2013
The Spain meeting is underway. Editing and publishing are the focus for this gathering, and we’re working offline on a local copy of the website to introduce materials to the site (in a rather chaotic fashion). From chaos, will come order, over time. The images are some of the participants, in listening mode, during the… Continue reading Spain Meeting – Tuesday 24 Sept 2013
Some videos from Leeds
Pedagogy Lecture by Davie Psychologist by Aljaž & Jan Cultivating Learning flower and some methods by Maria Viable systems model by Klara