TAFE Outreach applies innovative approaches to teaching the enhancement of community and personal environments with gardens for biodiversity, food production, sensory exploration and sustainable living in inner and outer Sydney. Based in the community our multi-agency programs engage women in hands on activity and provide opportunities to learn in a cooperative and supportive environment leading to harvesting, making and sharing food and developing networks and pathways to further learning. This teaching model relies on sound partnerships, resource sharing and responsiveness to students in the face of heightening pressures of obligations for students and the dominant paradigm of skilling workforces for economic growth. Resisting these pressures and providing a safe and inspiring place to learn leads to wellbeing, changed perceptions of personal and community capacity, goal setting and enriched learning.
Jude Cooke and Tric Kenny - Outreach Co-ordinators, TAFE NSW
Jude Cooke and Tric Kenny - Outreach Co-ordinators, TAFE NSW
