Learning takes many forms and occurs in many different settings, from formal courses
in schools or colleges to various types of experience in families, communities
and workplaces. All types of learning need to be recognised and made visible,
according to their content, quality and outcomes rather than their location and form.
OUR TYPICAL DAY
7am - 9:30am - BreakfastDaily Workbook
10am - 12noon - Instructed Activity or Outing
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Lunch
2pm - 5pm - Instructed Activity or Outing
6pm - 8pm - Dinner prepared at the farmhouse, unless on scheduled outing Evening WorkbookWholesome snacks available all day (24 hrs.)
Evenings
are an opportunity to relax and enjoy the immediate surroundings.
Entertainment may be provided at home for the guests in the form of music, a movie or games. What is Education for Sustainable Development?
It is education that banks on the future. It is designed to enable us to face the major challenges of today: preserving the environment, respecting biodiversity, protecting human rights.
Education for Sustainable Development sets new directions for learning.
First, it requires an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the social, environmental, economic and cultural dimensions of development and generates awareness of our interdependence - with others, with the world around us, and with nature. It enables us to address such issues as environmental protection, biodiversity and human rights.
Second, ESD imparts skills such as critical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving. In this regard, teachers have an influential role to play in encouraging more dialogue, team work and initiative.
Third and most fundamentally, ESD promotes values such as peace, equality and respect for others and for the wider natural and social environment. ESD is about empowering learners with the knowledge, skills and values to become real agents of change. 
At
Live-in Learn we strive to be associates in the interdisciplinary
approach to learning (Education for Sustainable Development).
Last Child in the Woods
In 2005, Richard Louv, celebrated author of Last Child in the Woods, best summed up the result of the disconnect that youth have from the environment:
“[the] real disorder lies in the society that has disengaged children from nature and imposed on them an artificial environment for which they have not evolved. Viewed from this angle, children and adults alike would suffer from what might be called nature deficit disorder, not in a clinical sense, but as a condition caused by the cumulative human costs of alienation from nature, including diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses
Education and lifelong learning systems can be assessed in terms of their success
in developing the key competences needed to function in today’s complex
demanding society, which go well beyond any particular level or educational setting.
Three clusters of such key competences have been elaborated through
the OECD DeSeCo Project (“The Definition and Selection of Key Competences”,
2004), each further divided into three components:
1. Using tools interactively: a) The ability to use language, symbols and text
interactively; b)The ability to use knowledge and information interactively;
c) The ability to use technology interactively.
2. Interacting in heterogeneous groups: a) The ability to relate well to others;
b) The ability to co-operate; c) The ability to manage and resolve conflicts.
3. Acting autonomously: a) The ability to act within the big picture; b) The
ability to form and conduct life plans and personal projects; c) The ability to
assert rights, interests, limits and needs.
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work
together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation.
The OECD member countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey,
the United Kingdom and the United States. The Commission of the European
Communities takes part in the work of the OECD.
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