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| Yayasan IDEP Foundation Formal Education Program |
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Indonesia is a densely populated country with a diverse and complex combination of ecosystems. Rapid development has brought about huge environmental degradation in both urban and rural areas. Widespread deforestation has caused serious erosion which threatens agriculture, fisheries, water quality and coastal resources. The manufacture and use of plastics has far superceded the waste management infrastructure’s capability to deal with it.
Even in developed countries like Australia, it took a full generation for ordinary people to understand the impacts of pollution and land mismanagement, and to embrace waste recycling and community responsibility for the environment. In a developing country like Indonesia where environmental education levels are low, there is very little understanding of the impacts of damage being done to the environment.
It is very difficult to change the attitudes and behavior of adults. Only when a generation of children learns about the importance of environmental management at the community level and takes this information home, will the wheel of change begin to turn.
Yayasan IDEP Foundation believes that there is a critical need for education of Indonesia’s youth in the fields of eco-literacy and practical problem solving skills so that they will be more able to address these issues in the future. To meet this need, IDEP has developed an outline for a widely applicable curriculum for eventual national application.
The Balinese Department of Education has reviewed our pilot projects in this field and has approved and endorsed our plan to develop a 3-year environmental curriculum for integration into the Balinese and potentially the national curricula. In 2000, IDEP was invited to Jakarta to present the curriculum proposal to the Ministers of Education, Forestry, the Environment and Conservation, who received it warmly. |
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| Yayasan IDEP Foundation’s Education Program to date |
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| Yayasan IDEP Foundation’s development of a ‘Learnscapes’ Curriculum for Indonesia started with an extensive research and development stage. |
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| 1999 – ‘Learnscapes’–Environmental Education Workshop |
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To ascertain the applicability and viability of ‘Learnscapes’ within the Indonesian Education system, IDEP invited forty Indonesian education and curriculum development experts to participate in an intensive workshop about this innovative approach to environmental education. The workshop was led by Philip Booth, a world expert on ‘Learnscaping’.
During the 2 week intensive workshop, participants reviewed the various components of the system, and gave feedback and inputs on how the approach could best be adapted and integrated into local schools. The consensus of the participants was that this approach, if modified to match local educators’ needs, was highly appropriate for application in Indonesia.
To see more about ‘Learnscapes’ and this workshop, click here.
Based on the results of this course, Yayasan IDEP prepared a draft outline of some of the curriculum components with support from Morag Gamble, a world expert on Environmental Education.
Plans for piloting the components were prepared and actioned over the next two years.
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| 1999 - 2000 Yayasan IDEP & Yayasan MACK Create Learnscaping Pilots at Local Schools |
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To create a curriculum that will be applicable throughout Indonesia, Yayasan IDEP needed to test the viability of processes in a range of contexts, so during 1999 and 2000 IDEP worked in partnership with another local NGO, Yayasan MACK, to pilot components of the planned curriculum.
Two primary school pilots were established, the Suta Dharma National Plus school in Ubud, and the National SDN1 in the remote area of Pupuan. Aside from the pilots’ own students, over 500 students from visiting local schools joined workshops at the schools and gave feedback on the projects that were being run.
To see more about our Learnscapes piloting, click here.
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| 2001 - GURIH GURIH GIZI - Innovative Nutrition Solution |
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At the Suta Dharma Pilot School, ‘Gurih Gurih Gizi’ (i.e. nutritious and delicious) gardens were created on school grounds and harvested only 3 months after planting. The formula was prepared by the teachers and students, and true to its name was a great success as children enjoy the flavor of this high Vitamin A, Iron and Iodine supplement.
The students at Suta Dharma then successfully transferred the technology to the other IDEP pilot school at SDN1 Batungsel.
To see more about our ‘Gurih Gurih Gizi’ click here. |
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| 2001 until today - Applying the work to date in the development of a formal curriculum |
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Based on the research and feedback received from our pilots and expert advisors to date, IDEP has developed a proposed the outline for a 3-year curriculum which targets grades 4, 5 and 6.
To date this project has been completely funded by IDEP staff and volunteers who have exhausted their personal resources. Therefore, due to lack of the funding needed to continue, work has stopped for the moment.
Once funding for this project is secured, work will recommence. Yayasan IDEP Foundation welcomes any enquiries and or offers of support to make this possible. If you are interested in supporting this program, please contact us for more details.
To see learn more about Yayasan IDEP’s ‘Learnscapes’ Curriculum proposal, click here. |
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