Field School is essentially a concept of critical education, which emphasizes participants to learn and produce knowledge from their own experiences, not memorizing theories, rules, and formulations made by others. Facilitators and participants should consider that each participant already has knowledge and experience or is “not empty” when participating in training. Training is only a tool to construct the knowledge they already have, engage in dialogue with other training participants, and become a shared foundation of understanding for all parties.

This material is created to encourage participants to practice thinking about something, discuss together, and help participants find conclusions or answers, so that community companions can identify existing problems in the village and also find the right solutions for those problems. Here are the materials that can be learned before legal aid workers go down to the community:

 

Self-Introduction

 

Legal Politics of Natural Resources

 

Legal Pluralism

 

Understanding Villages and Communities

 

Becoming a Good Facilitator

 

Recognizing Space and Data as Community/Village Potentials

 

Action Research: Transformative Research

 

Field Class: Collection and Filling of Spatial and Social Data

 

Learning to Manage Data and Its Security

 

Social Analysis

 

What is Conflict?

 

Customary Forest Policy and Social Forestry

 

Preparation of Village Legislation Policies and Customary Laws

 

Collaborative Work with Villages/Customary Institutions