Re: Self-reliant learning

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> Datum: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:58:23 -0800
> Von: Deborah Taylor-Pearce <[email protected]>
> An: Discussions about information design <[email protected]>
> Betreff: InfoD-Cafe: Self-reliant learning

> Cafe,
> 
> On 24 Dec. 2008, PBS's _The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer_ re-broadcast a
> very interesting report by journalist Fred de Sam Lazaro:
> 
> 	"School in India Teaches Women to Improve Lives, Towns.
> 
> 	"The Barefoot College in northern India teaches women skills
> 	to bring solar power to their villages and to manage the
> 	energy system in rural areas. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on
> 	the philosophy behind the school and its unusual approach to
> 	empowering women."
> 
> As summarized by social entrepreneur Bunker Roy, Founder of Barefoot
> College:
> 
> 	"Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate
> 	woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show
> 	that she can solar-electrify a village."
> 
> Most relevant to information designers: the training program stresses
> self-reliant learning and visual literacy. Classes are
> 
> 	"run by instructors who themselves have little or no formal
> 	education. Instruction is delivered with a mix of body
> 	language, a few essential terms in English, and a lot of
> 	hands-on practice.
> 
> 	"The students create an illustrated manual they'll take home.
> 	It's the closest thing to a diploma certifying their training
> 	as solar technicians."
> 
> A full transcript, with links to audio and streaming video downloads,
> is available at
> 
> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec08/indiaschool_10-06.html
> 
> 
> Best wishes to all for the upcoming new year!
> Deborah
> _____
> 
> Deborah Taylor-Pearce
> [email protected]
> 
> 
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