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TEACHING | FACILITATION | CRAFTS-BASED LEARNING
Using crafts in everything we do
(Crafty ideas for facilitators and language teachers :)
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This post will be of interest to you if you are a teacher, facilitator, educator, community builder or even a parent. In the following lines, I will briefly explain where my ideas on this topic came from and how they took shape. Then I will describe how I apply this learning approach in two very different contexts: (1) in my practice as a teacher of Sanskrit language and poetry and (2) in my practice as a workshop designer and facilitator in a corporate context.
Switching from one lineage to another
It is no secret to many of my readers that I have been practicing and teaching a particular approach to facilitation for many years. My search for better facilitation techniques began early in my professional life, when I was a Sanskrit teacher looking for ways to bypass the constraints of old-fashioned academic teaching and do something completely different and…
