Community Learning

 


Community learning includes a range of community place based and outreach learning opportunities, managed and delivered by local people to create scenescapes. Scenescapes are:

... shared activities, 

...features that define a neighborhood or place

...the presentations of locally generated aesthetics of a place.  

Development of scenescapes was an aim, emanating from the UK sustainable development plan, to bring together people of different ages and backgrounds to tackle community issues and communicate ideas and acheivements in citizen's environmental networks. The idea was the focus of a community learning project in the 1990s entitled 'Blything and Nine Parishes' (BANP).  

 BANP was part of an EC funded project called BIOPLEX based in the Suffolk village of Chediston, which in those days was a significant centre for local agricultural innovations to increase farm efficiency and minimise pollution. The project was mostly concerned with the economics of farm anaerobic digesters and the final report is now regarded as a classic milestone in this research area. However, a particular section of the EC’s protocol was to make a preliminary assessment of the future role of PC technology in the networking of innovation within and between village communities. Before that could happen there had to be a process of place-shaping in order for local people to develop a sense of identity and  belonging to a scenescape.

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