This handbook offers a step-by-step guide for schools to establish their own student-run repair programs. The class teaches diagnostic and hands-on skills, offers practical skills like inventory management and customer service, engages with other academic subjects, involves multi-generational community members, and incorporates aspects of providing repair services relevant to students’ development as healthy and responsible citizens of the world.
This guide includes the program’s pedagogical grounding, conceptual design, structure, a step-by-step outline for establishing a student-run repair class, practical resources and more.
Access Page — Fixing Things for the Future
Accesso — Arregando Cosas para el Futuro
Zugang — Reparieren macht Schule
Age — 5th - 12th grade (11 - 18 years old)
Cost — Free download (English hardcopy available at cost)
Source — Rudolf Steiner School, Munich, Germany
The Rudolf Steiner School in Munich, Germany, not only established an exceptional Student Repair Shop as part of their regular class offerings, but also created a comprehensive handbook to help other schools establish their own repair programs. The class teaches diagnostic and hands-on skills, offers practical skills like inventory management and customer service, engages with other academic subjects, involves multi-generational community members, and incorporates aspects of providing repair services relevant to students’ development as healthy and responsible citizens of the world.
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