A FROME woman is appealing for people to become involved in the Awesome Earth Education project.
The project aims to encourage school students to discuss world issues such as climate change in workshop groups.
From the Awesome Earth Education project, Karen Eberhardt-Shelton, told Frome Times, “The project could be delivered in schools with a workshop method (one hour long, at least three times a school week), whereby destruction, unravelling, major issues are embraced and students seated around wooden tables have to work out, through discussion and debate, what they consider to be rational solutions.
“The underlying pattern would focus on investigating causes of serious problems and situations, long-term effects and consequences, and logical, common-sense solutions.
“Awesome Earth Education is a model vehicle equipped with a pattern and intent to guide great ideas, wisdom, knowledge, facts, information, etc. to debate-and-discuss workshops where participating students are in a position to accumulate understanding and insight from on-going workshop ‘journeys’ based on highly informative books and other sources of information able to supply the fuel needed to deliver that knowledge, and subsequently ensure their resolve to live as custodians of the future, whatever their destinations.
“My hope is that at least a handful of insightful and caring Frome people will grasp the importance and significance of this project and come forward to participate and/or offer support in some way – either as directors, or participants in discussions about the best way forward, or whatever.
“There’s more and more education-focused material appearing in the media due to the fact that as a whole, the education system isn’t working, isn’t enabling students to become broadly aware of what’s going on locally and globally and the urgent necessity of taking action to change our behavioural choices and decisions so that they support the natural world, etc. instead of destabilising and undermining it. Climate change is now so serious, that unless we get our act together, humanity’s future is likely to vanish!”
For more information about Awesome Earth Education, contact Karen on: karen@earthkin.co.uk
