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What's new: Wed Mar 28 (2007) Julia Klomfass completes Internship
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Julia Klomfass completes Internship

A student of Environmental Sciences in Berlin, Julia Klomfass has just recently finished her three week internship at Demotech, where she has been working to bridge the gap between the conceptual understanding of hands-on work and academic life/lifestyle.
In her report, available here, Julia gives an exciting and heartfelt appeal to reintegrate hands-on work into education at all levels. Learning at Demotech, Julia set out to "find the patterns of hands-on work and a way to teach them to fellow students". her results, summarized in her report , are striking. Julia notes that many of the thinking patterns and practical skills vital to hands-on work are grossly undervalued in modern society, and that learning those would make a strong step towards sustainability by getting people more in touch with their surroundings. Moreover, she points out that the social concept that manual work is simple, or mindless, is false, and maps some of the more evident differences in thinking processes necessary to work successfully with your hands.
Connected to a publication by Demotech from 1998 "To Make", Julia's reflections build on Demotech's

Julia Klomfass shows one of her hands on results

previous experiences with learning in the field, as well as to progress of the current project by Bram in Guatemala. The importance of knowing how people learn outside of an academic environment is of great interest to us, and will be studied further.

By Joel

What's new: Julia Klomfass completes Internship
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