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Schumacher College was founded in 1991 in Dartington

Dartington

Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 1,917. It is located south of Dartington Hall and about two miles from Totnes. Dartington is home to an obsolete cider press , the Cott Inn, a public house dating from 1320, and Dartington Hall....
, Totnes

Totnes

Totnes is a market town at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty....
, Devon

Devon

Devon is a large Counties of England in South West England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county but often indicating a shire....
, UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
by Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar is an Indian, currently living in England, who has been a Jainism and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is the current editor of Resurgence, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School....
amongst others. It was named after E.F. Schumacher. It is an international centre offering transformative learning for sustainable living, and runs holistic education courses. It is part of the Dartington Hall

Dartington Hall

The Dartington Hall Trust, near Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom, is a pioneering charity, nurturing ideas to address pressing problems. The charity works for the advancement of the arts, sustainabaility and social justice....
Trust.

Several distinguished people in the area have taught short courses there, such as David Abram

David Abram

David Abram is an American cultural ecologist, philosopher, and performance artist, best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues....
, Patch Adams

Patch Adams

Hunter Campbell "Patch" Adams, M.D. is an United States physician, social activist, citizen diplomat, professional clown, performer, and author....
, Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra is an Austrian-born United States physicist.Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966....
, Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American medical doctor and writer. He has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine....
, Christian de Quincey

Christian de Quincey

Christian de Quincey, Ph.D.,Christian de Quincey is a philosopher and author who teaches consciousness, spirituality and cosmology at universities and colleges in the United States and Europe....
, Stanislav Grof

Stanislav Grof

Stanislav Grof is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of altered states of consciousness for purposes of analysing, healing, growth, and insight of the humanly psyche....
, Hazel Henderson

Hazel Henderson

Hazel Henderson is a Futures studies and an economic iconoclast. In recent years she has worked in television, and she is the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, ''Planetary Citizenship , and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy....
, James Lovelock
James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Devon, in the south west of England....
, Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis is an United States biologist and University Professor in the Earth science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryote organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory?which is now generally accepted for how certain Mitochondrion were formed....
, Humberto Maturana
Humberto Maturana

Humberto Maturana is a Chilean biologist....
, Wolfgang Sachs
Wolfgang Sachs

Wolfgang Sachs, Ph.D., is a Germany researcher and author with many books including Fair Future, Environment and Human Rights, and Jo'burg Memo....
, Arne Naess
Arne Naess

Arne Naess may refer to:*Arne N?ss , philosopher, mountaineer, and founder of deep ecology*Arne N?ss Jr. , nephew of the above, businessman, mountaineer, former husband of Diana Ross...
, Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake is a United Kingdom former biochemistry and plant physiologist who now researches and writes on parapsychology and other controversial subjects....
, Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva , is a physicist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals....
and many others.

Apart from a yearly programme of one, two or three-week short courses, they also offer an MSc
MSC

MSC may refer to:...
in Holistic Science, in partnership with the University of Plymouth
University of Plymouth

The University of Plymouth is the largest university in the southwest of England, with over 30,000 students and is the fifth largest UK university based on student population....
.

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Schumacher College was founded in 1991 in Dartington
Dartington

Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 1,917. It is located south of Dartington Hall and about two miles from Totnes. Dartington is home to an obsolete cider press , the Cott Inn, a public house dating from 1320, and Dartington Hall....
, Totnes
Totnes

Totnes is a market town at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty....
, Devon
Devon

Devon is a large Counties of England in South West England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county but often indicating a shire....
, UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
by Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar is an Indian, currently living in England, who has been a Jainism and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is the current editor of Resurgence, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School....
amongst others. It was named after E.F. Schumacher. It is an international centre offering transformative learning for sustainable living, and runs holistic education courses. It is part of the Dartington Hall
Dartington Hall

The Dartington Hall Trust, near Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom, is a pioneering charity, nurturing ideas to address pressing problems. The charity works for the advancement of the arts, sustainabaility and social justice....
Trust.

Several distinguished people in the area have taught short courses there, such as David Abram
David Abram

David Abram is an American cultural ecologist, philosopher, and performance artist, best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues....
, Patch Adams
Patch Adams

Hunter Campbell "Patch" Adams, M.D. is an United States physician, social activist, citizen diplomat, professional clown, performer, and author....
, Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra is an Austrian-born United States physicist.Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966....
, Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American medical doctor and writer. He has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine....
, Christian de Quincey
Christian de Quincey

Christian de Quincey, Ph.D.,Christian de Quincey is a philosopher and author who teaches consciousness, spirituality and cosmology at universities and colleges in the United States and Europe....
, Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof

Stanislav Grof is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of altered states of consciousness for purposes of analysing, healing, growth, and insight of the humanly psyche....
, Hazel Henderson
Hazel Henderson

Hazel Henderson is a Futures studies and an economic iconoclast. In recent years she has worked in television, and she is the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, ''Planetary Citizenship , and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy....
, James Lovelock
James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Devon, in the south west of England....
, Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis is an United States biologist and University Professor in the Earth science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryote organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory?which is now generally accepted for how certain Mitochondrion were formed....
, Humberto Maturana
Humberto Maturana

Humberto Maturana is a Chilean biologist....
, Wolfgang Sachs
Wolfgang Sachs

Wolfgang Sachs, Ph.D., is a Germany researcher and author with many books including Fair Future, Environment and Human Rights, and Jo'burg Memo....
, Arne Naess
Arne Naess

Arne Naess may refer to:*Arne N?ss , philosopher, mountaineer, and founder of deep ecology*Arne N?ss Jr. , nephew of the above, businessman, mountaineer, former husband of Diana Ross...
, Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake is a United Kingdom former biochemistry and plant physiologist who now researches and writes on parapsychology and other controversial subjects....
, Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva , is a physicist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals....
and many others.

Apart from a yearly programme of one, two or three-week short courses, they also offer an MSc
MSC

MSC may refer to:...
in Holistic Science, in partnership with the University of Plymouth
University of Plymouth

The University of Plymouth is the largest university in the southwest of England, with over 30,000 students and is the fifth largest UK university based on student population....
.
See also

Resurgence
Resurgence

Resurgence is a United Kingdom bi-monthly magazine which has been described as the artistic and spiritual voice of the green movement in Great Britain....

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