What are the Accreditation criteria?
Directly copied from http://www.permaculture.org.uk/education/accreditation-diploma
These can be broken into two groups: essential and complementary.
The essential criteria are: 'Theory in Action' - evidence that the student is living the theory of permaculture, and 'Design Practice' - how well a student can choose appropriate design processes and methods and apply them to a given situation.
The complementary criteria are about how the student's work relates to the wider body of permaculture design. They are 'Dissemination', 'Community Building', 'Symmetry' and 'Evaluation & Costings'.
- Dissemination describes how the student shares their work, this may be in the form of writing magazine articles, teaching on permaculture courses, speaking to local community groups etc.
- Community Building is achieved when a student demonstrates community development as part of their work. The community may be a local permaculture group or the wider community.
- Symmetry in this context means contributing to the permaculture community in exchange for having benefited from it. For example, early permaculture pioneers contributed much to the body of knowledge that students can draw on. By making a similar contribution, students can achieve a symmetrical relationship with the permaculture community.
- Evaluation and costing skills can help to demonstrate that a permaculture system can deliver yield improvements and economic efficiencies over a conventional approach.