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The term ecological literacy, or ecoliteracy, was coined by Fritjof Capra, a physicist, systems theorist and author who is a cofounder of the Center for Ecoliteracy in California. These courses are designed to raise awareness and a holistic understanding of nature. Awareness through the body & Ecological Literacy for kindergarten and primary schools
- Design, implementation and maintenance of school gardens
- Learning about natural cycles, growing vegetables, cooking and composting
- Observation and comprehension of natural patterns
- Sensory and body-awareness
- Integration of artistic expression such as poetry, clay-modelling, painting
- Supporting the natural curiousity
- Individual learning experience following one's own pace
- Creating and supporting relationships between different age-groups, learning from each other
- Supporting the process of a non-hierarchic community
- Seeing the role of a teacher as facilitator
- Adapted learning input and facilities regarding the individual ability to comprehend and reflect
- Connecting to and supporting the sense of wonder
- Encouraging creativity and imagination
Awareness through the body & Ecological Literacy for upper grades
- Offering a framework to explore and express oneself via creative processes such as acting, theater, dance and bodywork
- Sensory and body-awareness
- To commit oneself to a process and surrender to an experience
- To get to know one's own 'system', one's own nature, rhythms and patterns
- Learning to relate, meaning: learning to allow feelings, to express, to touch in order to connect and establish a genuine relationship to another person, to one's surroundings, to nature
- Discover and develop responsibility for oneself, one's feelings, thoughts and actions
- Learning about effects, feedbacks and cycles
- Learning about patterns and networks
- Understanding the interconnectedness of all anorganic and organic matter
- Getting to know the underlaying principles of living, self-organizing and self-sustaining systems
"The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities – communities that are designed in such a way that their ways of life, businesses, economies, physical structures, and technologies do not interfere with nature's inherent ability to sustain life. The first step in this endeavor is to understand the principles of organization that ecosystems have developed to sustain the web of life. This understanding is what we call ecological literacy. Teaching this ecological knowledge – which may be called 'principles of ecology,' 'principles of sustainability,' 'principles of community,' or even the 'basic facts of life' – will be the most important role of education in the next century." Fritjof Capra Using a transformative approach in our work, we offer different modules and formats that can be integrated in your curriculum. Please contact us.
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