Permaculture Teachers’ Manual

The very useful Permaculture Teachers’ Handbook produced by the European permaculture teachers partnership project is available here.

Topics in the Teachers’ Manual, include:

• Pedagogy the method and practice of teaching
  
• Didactics how knowledge and skills are taught and learned; transferring and assimilating new behaviours
  • Beginnings and Endings 
  • Course Formats
  • Course Timetables
  • Games, Energisers and Ice Breakers
  • Learning Materials and Tools
  • Learning Styles gives information about how people learn most effectively
  • Methods showcase of different methods, how to teach/learn, examples of how to teach a range of subjects and skills
  • Session Plans
• Curriculum the contents (what) of permaculture education
  • Design
  • Ecology
  • Finance & Economics
  • Legal, land tenure, governance
  • Permaculture Basics
  • Primary Production
  • Themes
• Widening Participation methods on including audiences that are generally under-represented
• Glossary of Terms
• Further Reading