Ecological education in action : on weaving education, culture, and the environment /
Ecological Education in Action celebrates the work of innovative educators in North America who explore ecological issues in school and non-school settings. These educators demonstrate how to reshape the thinking of children and adults to affirm the value of sufficiency, mutual support, and communit...
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Re-engaging Culture and Ecology / Gregory A. Smith, Dilafruz R. Williams 1
- Part I K-12 Settings
- 1. Stories from our Common Roots: Strategies for Building an Ecologically Sustainable Way of Learning / Joseph Kiefer, Martin Kemple 21
- 2. Deepening Children's Participation through Local Ecological Investigations / Paul Krapfel 47
- 3. From Human Waste to the Gift of Soil / Madhu Suri Prakash, Hedy Richardson 65
- 4. From Margin to Center: Initiation and Development of an Environmental School from the Ground Up / Dilafruz R. Williams, Sarah Taylor 79
- 5. Exploring Children's Picture Books through Ecofeminist Literacy / Elaine G. Schwartz 103
- 6. Education Indigenous to Place: Western Science Meets Native Reality / Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, Ray Barnhardt 117
- Part II Higher Education and Nonformal Settings
- 7. Liberation and Compassion in Environmental Studies / Stephanie Kaza 143
- 8. Changing the Dominant Cultural Perspective in Education / C. A. Bowers 161
- 9. Environmental Autobiography in Undergraduate Educational Studies / Peter Blaze Corcoran 179
- 10. Reclaiming Biophilia: Lessons from Indigenous Peoples / Gregory Cajete 189
- 11. Creating a Public of Environmentalists: The Role of Nonformal Education / Gregory A. Smith 207
- 12. Reassembling the Pieces: Ecological Design and the Liberal Arts / David W. Orr 229
- Selected Programs and Resources that Address Ecological Education 237.