Action Learning Tutorials

These tutorials are for helping you to reflect on the process of the diploma, to help you reflect back on where you’ve been, assess where you are now and plan progress forward.

Action Learning - The Core Skill in your Pathway:

Action Learning is a cycle which includes the following elements:

  • doing practical project work
  • systematically noting your observations about effects
  • thinking about how your experience affects your understanding of permaculture theory
  • working out how your conclusions will affect your designs for the next action opportunity
  • more practical project work incorporating your new learning

 

Action Learning Pathway:

At the start of the diploma you are asked to write or draw up an Action Learning Pathway. This is simply a map of your learning intentions for the next while: what you intend to do and how you intend to do it. How long you can think or plan ahead will vary on you and your circumstances.

The idea is that your pathway will help you get focused on what it is that you want to learn by experience (through projects or through working with an expert for example), what you want to learn by doing courses or reading and how you will go about getting support to do these things.

Once you have some sort of map prepared this will help you be strategic about organising your learning by booking places on courses, seeking out appropriate teachers and finding good projects for example.

Design Tutorials

Design support tutorials are for helping you assess your design work and get advice and guidance on the content of your design work. These are arranged entirely by you the student and the cost is not covered in the diploma fee, so that you can arrange as many Design tutorials as you need, with whoever is best suited to your own area of interest.

Specialist Courses and Technical Tutorials

These are again arranged and paid for independently by the student. They are not included in the cost of the diploma, this is so that you can tailor your own learning pathway to your own particular area of interest.