A New Approach to Ecological Education
Author: Gillian Judson
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781433110214
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Author: Gillian Judson
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781433110214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Part of the Peter Lang Education list"--P. facing t.p.
Author: Gregory A. Smith
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780791439852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrates 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.
Author: Gillian Judson
Publisher: Pacific Educational Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781926966755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a more sustainable, ecologically secure planet.
Author: Mark Priestley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1472525876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recent 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.
Author: Daniel Goleman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 111823720X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new integration of Goleman's emotional, social, and ecological intelligence Hopeful, eloquent, and bold, Ecoliterate offers inspiring stories, practical guidance, and an exciting new model of education that builds - in vitally important ways - on the success of social and emotional learning by addressing today's most important ecological issues. This book shares stories of pioneering educators, students, and activists engaged in issues related to food, water, oil, and coal in communities from the mountains of Appalachia to a small village in the Arctic; the deserts of New Mexico to the coast of New Orleans; and the streets of Oakland, California to the hills of South Carolina. Ecoliterate marks a rich collaboration between Daniel Goleman and the Center for Ecoliteracy, an organization best known for its pioneering work with school gardens, school lunches, and integrating ecological principles and sustainability into school curricula. For nearly twenty years the Center has worked with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the United States and numerous other countries. Ecoliterate also presents five core practices of emotionally and socially engaged ecoliteracy and a professional development guide.
Author: Stefan Dorondel
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0822988844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 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.
Author: Anita L. Wenden
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0791484645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the overlapping aims, values, and concepts in peace and environmental education.
Author: Shoshanah Ḳeni
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780761824015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Ecological Thinking, Shoshana Keiny relates the arguments of this book to the new ecological paradigm, based on open instead of closed systems, which see humans not as outsiders but as part of the system. Keiny uses the term ecological thinking as a holistic framework for thinking about ways in which teachers need to be engaged in participatory interactive learning processes, which seek to generate new understanding and knowledge that changes their professional context. Ecological Thinking is based on several projects in which teacher educators, researchers, parents and/or other members of the community collaborated in order to jointly transform education. Written as a personal narrative, Keiny illustrates an Action Research process that emphasizes the interplay between praxis and theory.
Author: Richard J. Borden
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 158394785X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A philosophical and narrative memoir, Ecology and Experience is a thoughtful, engaging recounting of author Richard J. Borden’s life entwined in an overview of the intellectual and institutional history of human ecology—a story of life wrapped in a life story. Borden shows that attempts to bridge the mental and environmental arenas are uncertain, but that rigid conventions and narrow views have their dangers too. Human experience and the natural world exist on many levels and gathering from both realms gives rise to novel constellations. In a blend of themes and approaches based on a lifetime of interdisciplinary inquiry, the author wanders these intersections and invites us to exercise our capacities for ecological insight, to deepen the experience of being alive, and, most of all, to more fully enrich our lives. Contents Foreword by Darron Collins, president of the College of the Atlantic Preface Part I. Transects and Plots 1. The Arc of Life 2. Ecology 3. Experience 4. Human Ecology 5. Education Part II. Facets of Life 6. Time and Space 7. Death in Life 8. Personal Ecology 9. Context 10. Metaphor and Meaning Part III. Wider Points of View 11. Kinds of Minds 12. Insight 13. Imagination 14. Keyholes 15. Ecology and Identity 16. The Unfinished Course Part IV. Coda