Hello again
Just finished re-reading the ecological, social justice and human rights perspective as dealt with in Tesoriero. It is probably a little unfair to say how the concept of the existing information trailer (IT) comes up compared to these perspectives, however it can be done in a broad way, which can also suggest areas of improvement.
Tesoriero develops the ecological perspective by drawing on the following four core principles of ecology: holism, sustainability, diversity and equilibrium.
looking at the IT and the theme of -
Holism: this principle values creating links between such things as knowledge and action. The trailer serves this purpose by obviously making info available to contribute towards empowering the public to address their issues (the volunteers actually manning the trailer providing a fine example of this through their efforts).
Sustainability: Having a strong passionate volunteer base is a vital ingredient for maintaining the trailer into the future. Also the way the trailer disseminates info and what info it carries can be compared against this principle i.e. are the brochures printed on recyclable paper, is there info dealing with the theme of sustainability.
Diversity: The trailer at any one time is manned by the volunteers, the community development officer and representative from DFC. This combined with questions from the public provides a forum for a range of discussion's to be had, where local solutions and ways of doing things can be aired, especially by the public.
Equilibrium: Equilibrium values input by all. As mentioned previously the trailer is a cooperative venture between the parties mentioned above which provides a place and space where all parties can express themselves stakeholders, including the residents of the Peachy Belt.
Tesoriero states that social justice and human rights perspectives are required as they are critical in defining the way in which the ecological perspective is to be implemented.
Social justice and human rights deals with such issues as social equity (access to basic resources and opportunity), dealing with oppression etc. The information trailer in a simple and effective way is providing the knowledge and opportunity to deal with social justice issues ranging from information regarding legal advise to where to hire equipment gardening.
Guys please consider this as a draft we can play around with tomorrow.
thanks
George
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Fantastic work, George!
ReplyDeleteI'll see you guys tonight!