ISBN:
9781138391291
,
9780367076436
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIV, 254 pages cm
Edition:
First published
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Prioritizing sustainability education
DDC:
304.2071
Keywords:
Sustainability Study and teaching
;
Sustainable development Study and teaching
;
Environmental education
Abstract:
Foreword / Jeanette Armstrong -- Introduction / Joan Armon -- The challenge ahead : prioritizing sustainability education / Stephen Scoffham -- This is zero hour : students confront educators / Zanagee Artis, Arielle Martinez Cohen, Kendall Kieras, and Ivy Jaguzny -- Opportunities for re-enchantment : exploring the spirit of place / Stephen Scoffham -- An education that heals : purpose and practices guided by the great work / Chara Armon -- Ways of being free : finding 'pulses of freedom' in the border zone between higher and public education for sustainable development / Heila Lotz-Sisitka -- Sustainability education : from farms and intentional communities to the university / Dan McKanan -- Learning from traditional wisdom in Papua New Guinea : the value of indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge in higher education / Sangion Appiee Tiu -- Sustainability education from an indigenous knowledge perspective : examples from Southern Africa / Soul Shava -- Walking mythopoeic landscapes : into the heart of the landscape to find the landscape of the heart / Simon Wilson -- Theravadic Buddhism and sustainability accounting : a Sri Lankan example / Nuwan Gunarathne and Sasith Rajasooriya -- Education for sustainability in early childhood education : sustainability transformation through collaboration / Nicola Kemp, Polly Bolshaw -- Boundary-crossing learning in ESD : when agricultural educators co-engage farmers in learning around water activity / Tichaona Pesanayi -- A future that is big enough for all of us : animals in sustainability education / Patty Born Selly -- Developing a curriculum for sustainability education : lesson planning for change / Mary F. Wright, Florence A. Monsour -- Sustainability role models for transformative change : a great turning in higher Education / Thomas R. Hudspeth -- Education for sustainability and the stories we live by / Arran Stibbe -- Conclusion / Joan Armon.
Abstract:
"Prioritizing Sustainability Education presents theory-to-practice essays and case studies by educators from six countries who elucidate dynamic approaches to sustainability education. Too often, students graduate with exploitative, consumer-driven orientations toward ecosystems and are unprepared to confront the urgent challenges presented by environmental degradation. Educators are prioritizing sustainability-oriented courses and programs that cultivate students' knowledge, skills, and values and contextualize them within relational connections to local and global ecosystems. Little has yet been written, however, about the relational sustainability education that educators are currently designing and implementing, often across or at the edges of disciplinary boundaries. The approaches described in this book expand beyond conventional emphases on developing students' attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors by thinking and talking about ecosystems to additionally engaging students with ecosystems in sensory, affective, psychological, and cognitive dimensions, as well as imaginative, spiritual, or existential dimensions that guide environmental care and regeneration. This book supports educators and graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the humanities, social sciences, environmental studies, environmental sciences, and professional programs in considering how to re-orient their fields toward relational sustainability perspectives and practices"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
