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Re: Assessing competencies
- To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Assessing competencies
- From: John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 22:53:25 -0800 (PST)
- In-reply-to: <LISTMANAGER-137576-36428-2001.12.23-19.07.35--eco_living#yahoo.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
Aloha,
> The value of defining permaculture compentencies and providing the
> training so that students become basically competent in them is that
> permaculture designers/ activists or whatever they call themselves
> can actually deliver workable systems to the clients/ communities
> they work with. This would, hopefully, include the follow-up and
> training of those clients/ communities
> so that they understand and can manage the systems introduced. This
> prevents system breakdown and abandonment.
I look at it this way: empowering individuals/communities to
understand, design, implement and manage their desired systems is the
lead-in 'training' that also 'delivers' their desired, workable
systems.
If people have bought into their desired process fully from the start
and been thoroughly engaged in design and implementation, I suspect
their short and long term 'success' is more likely.
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John Schinnerer, MA
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Cultural & Ecological Designing
Food - Shelter - Community
john@eco-living.net
http://eco-living.net
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