FixFest 2022
Repair in K - 12 Educational Settings
Online Session Recap and Video
The October 1, 2022 online session offered an opportunity for individuals working to bring repair into educational settings to gather to share information about what they’re doing and how, and to exchange resources and ideas.
In 90 minutes of presentations and discussion we broadened our understanding of what repair in educational contexts might look like, addressing scope, objectives, implementation, relationship with other school subjects, and related topics.
It was clear that the session heightened enthusiasm for bringing repair into educational settings. We hope that that enthusiasm, coupled with the resources below, will enable educators to more easily transform an interest in repair into actual programs.
The session recording is available HERE.
Please see below for information about presenters and the resources they make available, free of charge.
Moderator: Vita Wells — Berkeley, California, USA
The Culture of Repair Project
Promoting and facilitating bringing repair into educational settings.
Website
Resources to share: Resources
Please suggest additional resources!
Presenters:
Transition Berkeley — Repair Training Class, Berkeley, California, USA
12-week, once a week program; grades 8-12, hands-on comprehensive approach to repair; ecology, waste-stream, product design, circular economy, right-to-repair, job/career.
Website
Bonnie Borucki and Linda Currie, Co-directors, Transition Berkeley
Resource to share: In development
Student Repair Workshop - Rudolf Steiner School, Munich, Germany
Year-round class; technical hands-on learning coupled with the environment, social studies, citizenship, values; childhood cognitive development, pedagogy.
Website
Felix Lossin, teacher
Beat Schneiderhan and Carl Mau, students
Walter Kraus, program founder and teacher
Resource to share: Reparieren macht Schule
(German edition of Fixing Things for the Future)
Reparieren macht Schule e.V, Munich, Germany
See Student Repair Workshop above
Claudia Munz, Society for Educational Research and Career Development Munich
Resource to share: Fixing Things for the Future
(English edition of Reparieren macht Schule)
PolicyLab Africa — Gifted Hands Training Program, Lagos, Nigeria
Two month / 16 classes, vocational hardware repair program for girls
Website
Charles Ikem, Founder and Executive Director
Resource to share: Curriculum: Gifted Hands Training Program
Agency by Design - Oakland, California, USA
Thinking processes and pedagogy developed out of researching repair practices; classroom materials and pedagogical framing; designed to be integrated into existent maker and non-maker classes.
Website
Paula Mitchell, Co-Founder, Executive Director
Brooke Toczylowski, Co-Founder and Former Co-Executive Director
Resource to share: Cultivating a Repair Mindset Toolkit
Janina Klose — Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
With an interest in technology, environmental awareness and entrepreneurship, particularly in socially disadvantaged contexts, Klose is currently investigating implementation models of repair in educational settings. Project coordination and implementation for CaReSo: "Care & Repair - Promoting the care of objects as a new form of taking responsibility and global solidarity."
Website
Continue the Conversation:
To continue the conversation online and to network with others interested in repair in educational settings, you’re invited to join a forum hosted by The Restart Project (one of the hosts of Fixfest).
While to-date the forum has been used principally to support community repair events and more technical repair issues, we can use their “Repair and Education” category on an ongoing basis to exchange education-related ideas, resources and information. Participants can also exchange contact information for direct communication outside the forum.
Join The Restarter Forum
Repair and Education Category
Resources:
If you have published resources to offer, please let us know. We’d really like to augment and enrich the materials available to educators HERE.