[RSCT] school design and educational philosophy

[premilla dixit]

Dear Shana,

I am writing to you from India. I wonder if you have heard of the Center for
Ecoliteracy in California and Zenobia Barlow, its co-founder (with physicist
Fritzof Capra), and present Director?

I attended a video-show and seminar Zenobia held in Udaipur India, following
a conference she attended on global green education in Bhutan. I have known
about their work a while, but this was the first time I learned more about
it first hand. It is very impressive work. We hope to work with them in
India.

They are at the David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 270, Berkley,
CA 94704-1377. Tele 510-845-4595, email: zenobia at ecoliteracy.org (this note
is cc-d to her), and web: www.ecoliteracy.org.

They have been doing wonderful work in green education/school design for
years, and may be able to connect you with cohorts worldwide.  We are hoping
to work with them here in Udaipur, India, where I am presently developing
one part of the work of the Big Medicine Charitable Trust, called Greening
Indian Education. 

Do let me know how it goes, and if this was helpful.

Best Wishes,
Premilla Dixit

Director, BMCT
Udaipur, India




On 1/11/10 6:33 PM, "Shana Berger" <shanadberg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> i direct an alternative high school program for teens who have dropped out of
> high school and we're in the midst of working with architects to design our
> new classroom space in a green building.
> 
> i'm wondering if anyone out there has resources about school design that
> reflects a small school, project-based educational philosophy.  Or anything
> about school design and separately anything about educational philosophy that
> would be accessible to high school students.
> 
> please email me any ideas at this address!
> 
> thanks,
> 
> shana  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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