permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> ...The intention is to make a school that would break students
> and teachers out of the passive learning model of education and help to
> facilitate active, whole system thinking.

Then they (students and teachers) need to create that school...collaboratively
design and implement and reflect and redesign and modify and so on.

IMO your job would be to facilitate the local people doing that (which may
include all your points below and whatever else they come up with), and learn
as much as you can from them before, during and after.

> 1) Community design and school design
> 2) Outstanding and/or innovative curricula involving sustainability, whole
> systems thinking, active participation, physical movement etc.
> 3) Special considerations for the tropics
> 4) organic vegetable farming in the tropics
> 5) organic tree crops and agroforestry for the tropics
> 6) Getting active participation from the locals
> 7) Cool stuff that works!


John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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