PERMACULTURE & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS

PROJECT MANAGEMENT POSITIONS

• Director of Children's Permaculture Foundation (an organisation for environmental education, project development and resource material production) - based Dunedin, NZ; 1989 - 1994
  
  
• Researcher and writer for NZ Natural Heritage Foundation (an organisation for environmental education and eco-tourism) including the trialing of original environmental education programmes - in Otago Peninsula schools, under the Ministry of Education Science Advisory Service, Dunedin, NZ; 1990/91.
  
  
• Co-ordinator & teacher of Whole School Environmental Education Programme (including grounds design, seedraising, tree planting, ecological covenanting, local history, art, science, language) - Portobello School, Dunedin; 1990
  
  
• Co-ordinator of Whole School Programme initiative (a regional pilot programme for the transformation of impoverished rural schools) - TDP & North West Dept of Education, South Africa; 1996
  
  
• Co-ordinator of Permaculture Programme (including designing cross-curricula programme, training teachers, teaching classes, school grounds design and implementation with students) - Tshedimosong Farm School, NW Province; 1996 & Magaliesburg Group of Schools, Gauteng Province, South Africa; 1998
  
  
• Project Director, designer and co-tutor of S.E.E.D. ('Schools Environmental Education & Development') pilot programme (bringing together the agricultural and cultural aspects of Permaculture in a cross-curricula educational programme, culminating in the development of school grounds as an productive and aesthetic learning environment, involving the whole school community) - in partnership with Abalimi Bezekhaya & The Novalis Institute and funded by the NZ & British High Commissions; Pilot School: Bongolethu, Cape Flats informal settlement, Capetown, Sth Africa; 1998

TEACHING & FACILITATION

• Permaculture Education for Children workshop - International Permaculture Conference, Scandinavia; 1993.
  
  
• 'Environmental Awareness workshop for children - Mountain Valley festival, Nelson Province, NZ; 1993
  
  
• 'Working with Children in Permaculture' workshop (co-facilitated with Sarah Heffron from USA) - Adelaide, Australia; 1995
  
  
• 'Designing Gardens for and with Children' workshop - Perth, Australia; 1995
  
  
• 'Permaculture Designing of School Grounds' workshop - Perth, Australia; 1995
  
  
• 'Creating Gardens & Outdoor Spaces for Children' workshop - Adelaide, Australia; 1995
  
  
• 'Permaculture in the School' workshop - Titirangi Steiner School, Auckland, NZ; 1995
  
  
• 'Permaculture for your Home & School' workshop - Orewa, Northland, NZ; 1995
  
  
• 'Permaculture & Education with Production' presentation - North West Province Dept of Education, South Africa; 1996.
  
  
• 'Participatory Permaculture Design for Schools workshop (co-facilitated with Rick Coleman) - Northern NSW, Australia; 1997
  
  
• 'School Greening Forum' - Cape Flats, South Africa, 1998
  
  
• 'Transforming School Grounds into Productive Learning Environments' workshop - Adelaide, Australia; 1999

PUBLICATIONS

Booklets

• 'Forestry: our Renewable Resource' (a secondary school curriculum resource booklet) - under 'Regeneration Resources' for Ministry of Forestry, Otago-Southland region, NZ; 1992
  
  
• 'Greening Solutions for Schools: Cape Flats edition' (a practical hands-on guidebook for transforming school grounds) - co-produced for Abalimi Bezekhaya and sponsored by Old Mutual Insurance, Capetown, South Africa; 1998
  
  
• 'S.E.E.D. within Curriculum 2005' (pedigogical background and lesson plans for trialing within Sth African schools) - S.E.E.D. Trust, under Abalimi Bezekhaya, Sth Africa; 1998
  
  
• 'Doorway to the Natural World' (a guidebook for homes & schools) - Earthcare Education Aotearoa (currently draft stage)
  
  
• 'Raising your own Trees' (a guidebook for schools) - Earthcare Education Aotearoa (currently draft stage)
  
  
• 'Creating Sustainable Environments' series (a guidebook for homes & schools) - Earthcare Education Aotearoa (currently draft stage)

Chapters in Books

• 'Permaculture for Children' in 'Teaching Permaculture Creatively' - published by Earthcare Education (Australia); 1995

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS (Q)

• Primary School Teacher Training - Christchurch Teachers' College & Canterbury University, Christchurch, NZ; 1967/68/69 (Q: Trained Teachers Certificate)
  
  
• Waldorf (Steiner) Teacher Training - Ringwood School, Melbourne, Australia; 1981 & Taruna Teachers College, Havelock North, NZ; 1983 (Q: Teachers Certificate)
  
  
• Permaculture Certificate course - Permaculture Institute, Auckland, NZ; 1984 (Q: Certificate in Permaculture Design)
  
  
• Advanced Permaculture Design - Permaculture Institute of Australia; 1992 (Q: Diploma of Permaculture Design (in Media & Communications, Trusteeship, Education)
  
  
• Permaculture Facilitation course - Earthcare Education, Australia; 1993/95 (Q: Certificate in Permaculture Facilitation
  
  
• 'Creative Learning' training - Creative Learning Company, Auckland, NZ; 1997 (Q: Certificate in Creative Education)