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| Yayasan IDEP Foundation’s ‘Learnscapes’ Piloting |
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| 1999 - 2000 Yayasan IDEP & Yayasan MACK create ‘Learnscaping’ pilots at local schools |
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| Yayasan IDEP Foundation’s goal is to create a curriculum that will be applicable throughout Indonesia. To test the viability of processes in a range of contexts we chose pilot locations which included rural and semi-urban locations with economic levels varying from poverty level to middle class.
During 1999 and 2000 IDEP worked in partnership with another local NGO, Yayasan MACK, to pilot components of the planned curriculum.
Two primary school pilots were established in 2000. The Suta Dharma National Plus school in Ubud, and the National SDN1 in the remote area of Pupuan. Aside from the pilots’ own students, over 500 students from visiting local schools joined workshops at the schools and gave feedback on the projects that were being run.
As a result of these workshops, there has been a noticeable change in the attitudes of these schools and their local communities, particularly vis a vis waste management and environmental care. These projects that were launched as part of the piloting process are still fully functional and managed by the local schools’ staff today.
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| Components of the ‘Learnscapes’ Curriculum that were piloted included: |
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• Separating waste for recycling and maintain recycling systems, including making paper
• Composting organic wastes and maintaining worm composting systems
• Organic gardening, including vegetable, medicinal and culturally relevant plants gardens
• Growing and processing the ingredients for the Gurih Gurih Gizi nutrition formula
• Arts and crafts programs using local natural resources to make project reports
The curriculum testing was delivered as hands-on projects which demonstrated the following principals. Learning and retention of information rates were increased through the use of practical, dynamic approaches including the observation of local social and natural environments.
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| The practical skills learned by the students included: |
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• Understanding personal responsibility about their environments
• Understanding the importance of soil and water conservation
• Identifying local plants and revaluing biodiversity
• Understand the impacts of pollution
• Recording the skills and knowledge of community elders including traditional healers
• Learning basic project management through small classroom projects
• Re-value farming and gardening as meaningful, sustainable work
• Revalue work traditionally done by women and address early gender conditioning
• Public speaking and planning skills used to transferring the projects to other schools
The establishment of these pilots was partially funded by Canada Fund and coordinated with help from volunteer supporters. Pilots were facilitated by Yayasan IDEP, Yayasan MACK and local school staff.
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