COLEGIO JOHANNES KEPLER

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Spanish
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 1990

What we do

GOOD NEWS
We have been shortlisted among the top ten world best schools in environmental action due to the use of regenerative desing and ecovillage desing, check it out in this link:
https://t4.education/prizes/worlds-best-school-prizes/best-schools/environmental-action/colegio-johannes-kepler
We are a school that integrates SDG and Ecovillage Design Curricula to a regenerative resilient campus and is a leader at Ecuador in Education for Sustainable Development and SDG 15 of Global Compact. We are located at Ecuador, in a suburban Andean Forest which surrounds the city of Quito, our outreach reaches tropical and rainforests ecosystems.
We design and implement a Education for Sustainable Development Plan with the four dimensions of sustainability and the whole approach:
ECOLOGICAL

  • Regenerative campus and Forest School
  • Food Forest and Production

CULTURAL – EDUCATIVE

  • Integration of sustainable and constructivist pedagogies with SDG and Ecovillage Design Curricula
  • Environmental Educomunication
  • Art and Music festivals
  • Youth movement

ECONOMIC

  • Local economy with community market and fair
  • SDG Sustainable Projects Fair
  • Earth cycle integrated in soil, food production and compost

SOCIAL

  • Local and regional interaction with our community
  • Coordination of United for SDG Schools Network with 3182 institutions integrated
  • SDG 15 Leader in Global Compact with a national Ecosystem Restoration Programme
  • Languages
  • Spanish
  • English
  • German
  • Activities
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 1990
  • Started living together

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  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
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How to join

This is a green school so we accept students through the admission process. Interested people should contact the school and ask for admission assesment. A visit will be agreed to know the camp and the education model. We also share our learnings to other schools throug workshops and the camp and tours through the sustainable habitat route. We have gathered a school network which has already over 3000 schools which are called United by SDG. We develop material to share with the network as well as trainings.

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Location

  • Ecuador

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12 years ago

Gaia Ashram Internship

The Pioneers of Gaia Ashram , 5th of July– 2nd of August 2015 The Gaia Ashram Internship is a one month program on Ecovillage Design, Permaculture and Deep Ecology. The internship will be a holistic participatory learning experience & process. Interns will experience being part of the Gaia Ashram Community and we will live together for one month at– Gaia Ashram-. At Gaia Ashram we belief in holistic learning that balances the head, hands & heart. Gaia Ashram encourages participatory learning & values the power of community in holding the learning space. We design the daily & weekly structure of the internship and of our lives here based on these values and principles. Theoretical learning (Head) The theoretical sessions will be participatory and interactive. It will cover the 4 keys of Ecovillage Design Education (Social, Economical, Ecological and Worldview inspired by Gaia Education). Each week will cover one of the Ecovillage Design Keys and integrated into this we will be introduced to Permaculture Design & Deep Ecology in terms of philosophy, movement and personal experiences. Overall, We will have a maximum of 2-3 hours of theory per day on the session days, to also create lots of space for practical experiential learning. See more details of the key content below. Practical learning (Hands – on) For the hands – on practical learning we will be developing the Gaia Ashram’s farm and restoring nature on the Gaia Ashram land using permaculture strategies & techniques that are appropriate for the Rainy Season & the land and its local context. The hands-on work will focus on Gardening work i.e. developing the vegetable gardens, planting seeds & seedlings, transplanting, propagation of plants, making composts, growing and maintaining a Food Forest, planting green manures, planting lots of trees, planting seasonal crops. Apart from the Gardening we will also will be doing some natural building which mostly will focus on creating natural finishes usi

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