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Placemaking through Change: 100 years of adaptive learning
Rachel Sweeney As we approach the 100 year mark of the Elmhirst’s legacy on the Dartington Estate in Devon, South West England, there is an opportunity to critique the lineage and direction of arts and environmental education at Dartington through recent notable developments, forming out of the past 5-10 years, and perhaps fortunately aligning as…
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Swimming upstream in Japan’s Green Valley
Rachel Sweeney My Japan travels start in Kamiyama Village, approximately 3 hours south of Osaka on Shikoku Island, where mornings are spent integrating high altitude walks with late seasonal dips in extraordinarily crystal clean rivers (trying to avert the local forest servicemen from calling the emergency services to ‘rescue’ the crazy foreigner from arctic conditions,…
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A Confluence of Learning: Ecology, Democracy, and Education
Landscapes are always in flux, adaptable, and resilient, and unreservedly open to the world, as democracies must also be. Although I often find the solace of inner spaces seductive — the close focus, isolation and quiet a welcome respite from a fraught world, I’ve found more recently that letting go is also core to building…
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What do we mean by ‘Regenerative’?
Regenerative is cropping up across many different areas these days — from education to economics to ecology to enterprise and more. With its roots in medicine and theology as early as the 14th and 15th centuries, the term came to be associated with forests in the late 19th century but not popularised until the 1970s…
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Regenerative Learning Podcasts
Over the past several years, RLN founder Pavel has had many conversations about the work of regenerative learning, transforming organisations, ecological thinking, regenerative culture, networks … and endurance running! Please have a listen from the selection below:
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