Montessori Makers Learning · Adolescent · Occupations
Adolescent Occupations Bundle (Six Seminars)
Six six-week occupation seminars for ages 12-15: Land and Food, Shelter, Care, Commerce, Communication, Science and Repair. True to Erdkinder, modernized for contemporary justice work.
For
Schools running adolescent programs, or building one
Delivery
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From the page to the classroom
Picture the material in use.
Use the material as a starting point for observation, conversation, and work appropriate to the learners in front of you.
- 01
Start with real responsibility
Choose work with a partner, community, or enterprise where a contribution matters.
- 02
Connect work and seminar
Use reading, discussion, and quantitative inquiry to examine the experience.
- 03
Document the contribution
Bring together a work product, evidence, and a reflection on what changed.
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What’s Included
6 items in this bundle.
Adolescent · Land and Food
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Shelter and the Built World
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Care and Community
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Commerce and Exchange
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Communication and Media
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Science and Repair
PDF · six-week seminar
Inside Each Seminar
What an adolescent actually does for six weeks.
Every Adolescent seminar follows the same six-week shape: real work at a partner site three afternoons a week, two seminar mornings on the underlying ideas, and structured reflection. The structure is true to Erdkinder, modernized for contemporary justice work. The material is rigorous; the adult capacity required to run it is real.
01 · Land and Food
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week at a working farm, urban garden, food bank, or community kitchen. Students participate in actual production, harvest, distribution, or food preparation alongside adults doing the work.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the science of food systems (soil, ecology, nutrition), one on the politics of food (sovereignty, access, labor, justice). Reading from contemporary food-systems thinkers.
Six-week deliverable
A working contribution to the partner site (a planted bed, a finished meal cycle, a documented process), plus a written reflection connecting the work to the larger system.
02 · Shelter and the Built World
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week with a builder, architect, urbanist, housing organization, or community land trust. Students engage with actual construction, design review, or housing advocacy.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the principles of design, materials, and structural reasoning; one on housing as a justice question — zoning, displacement, ownership, who gets to live where.
Six-week deliverable
A documented contribution to a built or designed object, plus a written analysis of the housing or design context students were working inside.
03 · Care and Community
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week with caregivers, elder care, early childhood programs, or community health. Students participate in real care work alongside professionals.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the ethics and practice of care (reciprocity, dignity, intimacy of care work); one on care as a labor question (paid vs unpaid, gendered, racialized economy of care).
Six-week deliverable
Documented care relationships built across the six weeks, plus a written reflection on what care reveals about the political economy.
04 · Commerce and Exchange
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week at a small business, cooperative, mutual aid network, or trading floor. Students engage with real commerce — buying, selling, accounting, customer relationships.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the mechanics of commerce (margin, pricing, accounting, supply); one on the ethics and history of exchange — capitalism, alternatives, what fair exchange means in practice.
Six-week deliverable
A documented commerce engagement (a sale completed, a budget reconciled, a transaction analyzed), plus a written reflection on what they learned about exchange.
05 · Communication and Media
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week with a journalist, podcast producer, community radio station, school communications office, or independent media outlet. Students contribute to real publishing.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the craft of communication (clarity, voice, narrative, audience); one on media as power — who gets covered, who gets to cover, who owns the platform.
Six-week deliverable
Published or broadcast work the student contributed to, plus a written analysis of the media environment they were operating in.
06 · Science and Repair
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week in a repair shop, maker space, lab, environmental remediation site, or restoration project. Students engage in actual scientific practice or skilled repair work.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on scientific reasoning and the practice of repair as material engagement; one on what science is for — extraction, restoration, repair as a politics.
Six-week deliverable
A documented repair, restoration, or scientific contribution, plus a written reflection on the ethic of fixing what is broken.
School readiness required
Each seminar lists hiring criteria for the adult guide. This bundle assumes the school has — or is actively building — adult capacity for occupation-based adolescent work.
Ready when you are.
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