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Sweden - Learning Environment - responsibility - problemsolving
Hen House
Learning Environment im Verbundprojekt
Focus of the project
Internship with a professional carpenter and his team
Independently building a hen house
Situation
Building project "Hen House" on a "farm" & soap manufactur with an official shop on site for paying customer. Carpenter team with 4 members have various assignments on the premises. Our participant choses to work with the hen house project alone. The hen house needs to be easy to operate, practical in summer and winter, feel good and safe inside and outside (and keep out the fox).
Important Elements in successful implementation
+Professional carpenter (no teachers) and team members
+Clear expected result (fully working comfortable and safe hen house with outside area)
+Semi-Public work / project (it is the real thing with real animals and business case with paying customers, in an environment supported by a professional team/supervisor
+Group dynamics/real life social setting (do participants help each other or not, do they compete against each other or not, who can do what, who is great and who is not)
+Guidance social worker at home through IdA Project
+Give responsibility participant is 100% responsible for planning, refurbishing, building and ideas
+Freedom of choice, what would I like to do in the project, today, what am I good at? what do I build and how?
+Freedom from expectations (some outside pressure in the hen house project to get the job done - customer is paying - and employers reputation is on the line.. social acceptance in the team)
Softskills
Responsibility & Commitment Creativity, problem solving
Communication Reflection
Learning Principles
Learning-by-doing /come up with a learning process of one's own, self activation and motivation
Reflection of what do I build and why? Take action, take responsibility for the actions just-do-it
Trial-and-Error
Realisation of idea through learning-by-doing and some trial-and-error with support of a professional
Participants have time to reflect upon and realise their own strenghts and weaknesses, they have freedom to develop and experiment with their project and themselves in their own time and their own way
Participants can also change or modify their goal according to new learnings (self-improvement)
Focus on understanding the steps necessary for the development of the project
Support from professionals
Professional support allows participants to move on to the next level by benefiting from the know-how and advice from the professional and his/her contacts
Peer-to-peer learning
Interaction and cooperation with people from different backgrounds and ages
The team of 3-5 people is a social setting where social soft skills are trained naturally in the work environment. IdA-social pedagogues are balancing and putting a perspective to actions at work and at "home".
This Mobility Learning Environment (LE) and the method learning by doing was successfully used during IdA-Projects in Småland.
