Education & Culture

The permaculture flower illustrates the core domains of permaculture.

Education & Culture is one of the domains of permaculture that is central to a sustainable society. This domain covers topics such as:

• Home schooling - Parents as natural teachers of children within the household economy
• Waldorf education - Schools based on the educational methods of Rudolf Steiner
• Participatory arts and music - Reclaiming our place as actors/musicians rather than spectators
• Social ecology - Philosophy focused on the redesign of society using ecological principles
• Action research - A reflective process of progressive problem solving that accepts the observer as a part of the system being studied
• Transition culture - An evolving exploration of the head, heart and hand of energy descent