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growl_eval_berlin2014.pdf Attached are the filled evaluation questionnaires of the GROWL courses and the analysis made by Tó and Kristina.
On the right side you find not only the questionnaires, but also the excels with all the data from the evaluation forms. Unfortunately, I am not able to upload .sav files, so I cannot upload the SPSS equivalents here. Anyways, you find attached the reports that I hope are useful to you (especially interesting to the course organizers).
I calculated the average score of each participant and the overall mean from that (=mean of all items). This is the overall…
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Why „work“?
What is work? In our present society work is very strongly associated with wage labor or employment. Work is what somebody agrees to pay you for. But is this so? What is with all the activities that are essential for the well being of all. Why is are activities sometimes paid for and sometimes not? Care? Education? Cooking? Love? Friendship? Nature? Some activities that are labled as work (and well paid) seem to be meaningless, even socially or environmentally destructive. Why is this so and who decides about this this?
These questions,…
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Authors: Eva Fraňková*, Nadia Johanisová*, Eva Malířová**
Editing, graphics: Nikola Fousková*** & the GROWL team
* Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, http://humenv.fss.muni.cz/english, emails: eva.slunicko@centrum.cz (Eva Fraňková), johaniso@fss.muni.cz (Nadia Johanisová)
** NaZemi (OnEarth), Kounicova…
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Chapter authored by by F. Gillet and M. Terzo, Haute Ecole de Bruxelles, Belgium
Introduction
Agroecology is in the same time a large panel of techniques (local agriculture, organic-agriculture, permaculture, resilient agriculture ….), a critical look on those techniques with a theoretical reflexion on political, economical, cultural, social, ecological, human … levels and at the end also a philosophy that could be simply summarized as “an art of connecting and balancing agricultural activities and their ecological…
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1. Introduction:
a) Subject of the module
b) Connection/ relevance to degrowth
c) Aim of the module
2. Theoretical Content:
a) Mainstream approach to the topic and the critique
b) Degrowth approach to the topic
c) Alternatives: Proposed methods or alternatives to address the topic within degrowth
3. Experience of the course:
a) What was done and how (methodologies/ best practices)
b) Presentations and case studies
c) Pictures and videos
4. Conclusions
5. Reference list
Introduction
GROWL partner…
more… An online and printed book consisting of a collection of modules and documentation of the courses happening in 8 different countries on the GROWL project during 2013 and 2015.
Tired of talking about cereals in a multicultural environment? Don't know what is Hirse, or wonder how to explain to a Polish person what is millet?
Here it is at last, a multilingual list of cereals:
| Latin | English | Deutsch | Español | Français | Polski |
| Zea mays | Maize | Mais | Maíz | Maïs | Kukurydza |
| Oryza | Rice | Reis | Arroz | Riz | Ryż |
| Triticum | Wheat | … |