Seminario de Fin de Carrera EIDA-2017

Pedagogy meant, to us, the methods and practices of learning and teaching. We were looking for something congruent with the way of thinking (of nature, systems-oriented,

social…) proposed by permaculture. First we described to each other how we were

learning to be eco-social designers (by discovery, by action, through emergence, by

experience, by playing, by comparing stories, by asking each other for advice and

mentoring…) and then we looked to see if we could find any reference to this approach to

learning in the literature. We were enthusiastic to find something for several reasons:

• We could then more easily describe our approach to people already in the educational field and therefore more readily show ourselves to be legitimate (and possibly gain access to the very substantial resources already committed to the field of education)…

• We would have to hand, from the get-go, the valuable insights that experienced researchers had developed and articulated around the chosen pedagogy so we’d be able to hit the ground running…

• The method/theory would be bigger than any of us as individuals so we’d be less likely to get caught up in opinionated conflicts (which is often an issue amongst pioneer groups)…

• Our un/learning community would have a shared language with which we could hold those all-important meta-conversations about how our un/learning was going and where, as individuals, we felt strong and/or challenged and where we saw the opportunities for growth… Andrew Langford ESD, 132