Re-imagining potential through education at Ruskin Mill
For over four decades, Ruskin Mill Trust has worked with young people with special educational needs and behavioural issues, through teaching traditional crafts and organic farming, alongside a curriculum of therapeutic education and re-engaging with the wider world. Aonghus Gordon is the founder and CEO of the trust and Laurence Cox is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland. This is a charming and deeply thoughtful book that celebrates the history of Ruskin Mill, its location and the philosophy that underpins its methodology. By bringing young people literally ‘down to earth’ they help them ‘to arrive fully in the physical and interpersonal worlds that have been a challenge for so many of them’.
The authors describe in detail the role of PSTE (Practical Skills Therapeutic Education) that is made up of seven fields of practice: the spirit of place, practical skills, the ecology of the farm, therapeutic education, holistic care, human health and transformative self-leadership. This inspirational book deserves to be read widely.
Chapters include:
- The spirit of the place
- Ecology of the farm
- Therapeutic education
- Health and the whole human being
- Transformative leadership
A. Gordon and L. Cox
Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
ISBN: 978-1-32-42175-9
£24.99
