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Place-based Learning

Place-based learning engages students in their community, including their physical environment, local culture, history and people. Place-based education centers the educational process in the local environment. This form of learning requires the facilitators and learners to be placed in their communities so that they can engage with community-based problems.

Planet-centric approach involved and importance

 

  • Organisation of life, self and community.  

  • Providing earth-friendly and people-friendly alternatives in education.

  • Rethinking education with environmental consciousness and compassion.

  • Providing a learner-centred and locality-centered educational environment.

  • Developing curriculum which is tailored to the needs of the learners.

  • Facilitating life-centred learning rather than career-centred learning.

  • Facilitating connection with oneself, community around and the rest of nature.

  • Making the community an important stakeholder in the learning process.

  • Creating contextual curriculum based on immediate surrounding and ecology, land, water, air, etc.

Knowledge, Skillset, and Mindset to be developed to become a practitioner 

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  • Requires in-depth understanding of the communities in the place where the learning space is functioning - the culture, customs, beliefs and problems.

  • Basic understanding of the methods in which to run learning spaces.  

  • Understanding facilitation and having facilitation skills.

  • Designing education and workshop modules around environment and sustainability for learners.

  • Intention to rethink systems of society like work, education, relationships, money, etc.

  • Keen observation, learning and patience to engage with learners from various backgrounds.

  • Skills in designing academic curriculum suited to the learners’ environment and needs.

  • Intention to shift the pattern from competition to cooperation, co-creation and co-learning.

  • Ability to diversify and relate various aspects of life with one’s learning and education.

  • Communication and observation skills and connection with the community.

  • Understanding of experiential learning.

  • Enthusiasm to understand learning and education as a part of life.

  • Love for working with the learners and natural spaces. 

  • Being passionate about teaching and sustainable living.

Opportunities in such a pathway

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  • Build an alternative model of education which is more relevant to the community.

  • Create space for mutual learning.

  • Chance to work on local issues through education.

  • Build a new lifestyle in harmony with the rest of nature.

  • Develop and disseminate various practices for sustainable living. 

  • Travel across different regions to explore different models of education.

  • Engage with various social-ecological issues and effectively contribute to the movements.

Learning resources

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Readings 

  • Divaswapna: An Educator's Reverie, Gijubhai Badheka

  • Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 

  • Letters from a Forest School, Chittaranjan Das

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Fims

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Organisations

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