Process - New Paradigm for Discovery-Based Learning: Implementing Bottom-Up Development by Listening to Farmers' Needs and Using Participatory Processes and Holistic Thinking

New Paradigm for Discovery-Based Learning:
Implementing Bottom-Up Development
by
Listening to Farmers' Needs
and
Using Participatory Processes and Holistic Thinking

Process

Malian subsistence farmers/students/faculty, Native Americans, and Mongolian Pastoral Nomads converse with US students/faculty to share values, concerns, and visions for the future
Effective service learning/publishable research projects tied to on-farm Mali Agri-Business Network using participatory processes and holistic goal setting
PBS (Terra) presentation on the role of traditional ecological knowledge and science in solving root causes of rural poverty and the value of traditional wisdom

Project Trip Reports | Project Diagram - Gap Chart | Project Time Table - Gantt Chart

New Paradigm Programs