A New Approach to Ecological Education
Author: Gillian Judson
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781433110214
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Ecological Education in Action
Author: Gregory A. Smith
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780791439852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrates the work of educators who explore ecological issues in school and non-school settings. Gives examples of ways to impact the thinking of children and adults in order to affirm the values of sufficiency, mutual support, and community.
Teacher Agency
Author: Mark Priestley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1472525876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark Priestley, Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson explore empirical findings from the 'Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change' project, funded by the UK-based Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Drawing together this research with the authors' international experiences and perspectives, Teacher Agency addresses theoretical and practical issues of international significance. The authors illustrate how teacher agency should be understood not only in terms of individual capacity of teachers, but also in respect of the cultures and structures of schooling.
Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education
Author: Gillian Judson
Publisher: Pacific Educational Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781926966755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a more sustainable, ecologically secure planet.
Ecologies for Learning and Practice
Author: Ronald Barnett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1351020242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEcologies for Learning and Practice provides the first systematic account of the ideas of learning ecologies and ecologies of practice and locates the two concepts within the context of our contemporary world. It focuses on how individuals and society are being presented with all manner of learning challenges arising from fluidities and disruptions, which extend across all domains of life. This book examines emerging ways of understanding and living purposively in these new fluidities and provides fresh perspectives on the way we learn and achieve in such dynamic contexts. Providing an insight into the research of a range of internationally renowned contributors, this book explores diverse topics from the higher education and adult learning worlds. These include: The challenges faced by education systems today The concept of ecologies for learning and practice The role and responsibility of higher education institutions in advancing ecological approaches to learning The different eco-social systems of the world—local and global, economic, cultural, practical, technological, and ethical How adult learners might create and manage their own ecologies for learning and practice in order to sustain themselves and flourish With its proposals for individual and institutional learning in the 21st century and concerns for our sustainability in a fragile world, Ecologies for Learning and Practice is an essential guide for all who seek to encourage and facilitate learning in a world that is fundamentally ecological in nature.
A New Ecological Order
Author: Ştefan Dorondel
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0822988844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress. Far less known are the dramatic environmental changes experienced by Eastern Europe, in many ways a terra incognita for environmental historians and anthropologists. A New Ecological Order explores, from a historical and ethnographic perspective, the role of state planners, bureaucrats, and experts—engineers, agricultural engineers, geographers, biologists, foresters, and architects—as agents of change in the natural world of Eastern Europe from 1870 to the early twenty-first century. Contributors consider territories engulfed by empires, from the Habsburg to the Ottoman to tsarist Russia; territories belonging to disintegrating empires; and countries in the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. Together, they follow a rhetoric of “correcting nature,” a desire to exploit the natural environment and put its resources to work for the sake of developing the economies and infrastructures of modern states. They reveal an eagerness among newly established nation-states, after centuries of imperial economic and political impositions, to import scientific knowledge and new technologies from Western Europe that would aid in their economic development, and how those imports and ideas about nature ultimately shaped local projects and policies.
Educating for a Culture of Social and Ecological Peace
Author: Anita L. Wenden
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0791484645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the overlapping aims, values, and concepts in peace and environmental education.
Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness
Author: Edmund O'Sullivan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004-01-17
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781403963048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn their latest book, Edmund O'Sullivan and Marilyn Taylor highlight the pedagogical practices that foster transformation from our current way of thinking about our place in the world to an underlying ecological way of seeing and acting. Learning Towards Ecological Consciousness offers the reader a selection of transformative practices that demonstrate, in specific contexts, the complex journey and contextual conditions that move us forward towards a deeper realization that we are part of the world around us, holding a greater promise for deeper ecological awareness. To this end, thirteen chapters offer a rich array of practices in diverse life settings--educational environments, communities and workplaces and personal relationships. Contributors and their material represent a range of cultures, work setting and professions. The aspect of O'Sullivan and Taylor's new book that distinguishes it from other books in the field is its exploration of how consciousness can be transformed through practices, experience and action.
Earth in Mind
Author: David W. Orr
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2004-07-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781559634953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human domination causes students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they are overemphasizes success and careers separates feeling from intellect and the practical from the theoretical deadens the sense of wonder for the created world The crisis we face, Orr explains, is one of mind, perception, and values. It is, first and foremost, an educational challenge. The author begins by establishing the grounds for a debate about education and knowledge. He describes the problems of education from an ecological perspective, and challenges the "terrible simplifiers" who wish to substitute numbers for values. He follows with a presentation of principles for re-creating education in the broadest way possible, discussing topics such as biophilia, the disciplinary structure of knowledge, the architecture of educational buildings, and the idea of ecological intelligence. Orr concludes by presenting concrete proposals for reorganizing the curriculum to draw out our affinity for life.
