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      Building skills, building homes : community sustainability, straw bale construction, and indigenous perspectives

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      Date
      2005-11-15
      Author
      Vandale, Carol A.
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      This narrative inquiry explores how the Building Skills, Building Homes Project, which was undertaken in Saskatchewan, Canada from April – November 2003, exemplified a learning strategy for self-sustainable community development through the straw bale construction of two buildings. Being self-sustainable involves searching for an interconnected way of living with our environment. Finding a strategy that connects what is ecologically sound, such as straw bale construction, with current modes of living, is a complex process that necessitates new kinds of community education relationships. A retrospective analysis of the author’s experience with the project and a conversational interview with one of the participants of the Building Skills, Building Homes Project will illustrate the adult learning that happens between learners working together on a joint project, which facilitates a growing awareness of what self-sustainable living entails. The research question framing this study is: What links can community educators make using the Building Skills, Building Homes Project as an example of ecological community sustainability?
      Degree
      Master of Continuing Education (M.C.Ed.)
      Department
      Educational Foundations
      Program
      Educational Foundations
      Supervisor
      Collins, Michael
      Committee
      Wason-Ellam, Linda; Oliphant, Lynn; Julien, Richard
      Copyright Date
      November 2005
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-11292005-080757
      Subject
      alternative energy
      workplace learning
      affordable housing
      aboriginal education
      work skills
      ecology - indigenous
      cultural development
      sustainable development
      community development
      ecological education
      environmental education
      community education
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