Caroline Smith

Penguin, Tasmania, Australia

Key skills

Teacher/trainer education – plant protection, organic agriculture, permaculture, science, sustainability, learning, curriculum development
Facilitation
Permaculture design
Organic farming
Educational research and research supervision
Secondary teaching – chemistry, biology, environmental science, general science
Conference planning and development

Review and rewrite of UNESCO Teacher Education Modules for the Pacific (in progress)

Project consultant: Skilling Tasmania for a sustainable future – Skills for the carbon challenge, Commonwealth of Australia, 2014

Trainer and developer: Lead farmers crop protection for Kastom Gaden trainers in Solomon Islands, 2011 (with G. Jackson)
Trainer and developer: Effective learning in plant protection (IPPSI project), Solomon Islands 2008, 2009 (with G. Jackson)
Development of IPPSI training manual (with G. Jackson)
Co-convenor, teachers’ professional learning conference, Archdiocese of Honiara, Solomon Islands, 2006-2009
Development and implementation of Microscience equipment trial in Solomon Islands schools, Curriculum Development Centre, Honiara, 2009

Facilitator, various Permaculture Design Certificate and Dip Perm courses, 1998-2012
Member, advisory committee, Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative
Member, steering committee, development of Vocational Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology

PhD University of Melbourne: Thesis title The Getting of Hope: Personal Empowerment through Learning Permaculture
M.Ed University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
M.Sc Mycology and Plant Pathology, University of London
B.Sc Chemistry and Botany, University of London
Graduate Diploma of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Certificate IV Vocational Training & Assessment, Swinburne University of Technology

Dawborn, K. and Smith, C. (Eds). (2011) Permaculture pioneers: Stories from the new frontier. Hepburn: Melliodora Publishing (Book).
Jackson, G., Smith, C., et al. (2014). Crop protection training manual for Kastom Gaden trainers in Solomon Islands. Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
Jackson, G., Smith, C., et al. (2010). Improving plant protection in Solomon Islands (IPPSI): Crop protection curriculum and teaching methods for Solomon Islands. Manual for Trainers and Trainees. Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Suva, Fiji.
Smith, C. (2009). Outside Africa: Microscience in the Solomon Islands. In Compendium of innovations and good practices in Microscience. UNESCO, AbujaSmith, C (2009). Developing quality science education in Solomon Islands: Evaluation trial of Microscience kits. Report to Caritas Australia.
Smith, C. (2006-2011). Solomon Islands Catholic Teachers’ Sodality conference, Solomon Islands. Reports to Catholic Education Offices Archdiocese of Honiara and Diocese of Sale, Victoria.
Smith, C. (2005). Permaculture, organics and food security: An Australian perspective. Pacific Ecologist 10, Summer.