Ecological literacy : education and the transition to a postmodern world
The most important discoveries of the 20th century exist not in the realm of science, medicine, or technology, but rather in the dawning awareness of the earth's limits and how those limits will affect human evolution. Humanity has reached a crossroad where various ecological catastrophes meet what some call sustainable development. While a great deal of attention has been given to what governments, corporations, utilities, international agencies, and private citizens can do to help in the transition to sustainability, little thought has been given to what schools, colleges, and universities can do. Ecological Literacy asks how the discovery of finiteness affects the content and substance of education. Given the limits of the earth, what should people know and how should they learn it?
Print Book, English, ©1992
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1992
xiii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
9780791408735, 9780791408742, 0791408736, 0791408744
22951790
The problem of sustainability
Two meanings of sustainability
A tale of two systems: sustainability in international perspective
Fragments of strategy
Ecological literacy
The liberal arts, the campus, and the biosphere: an alternative to Bloom's vision of education
A prerequisite to the great books of Allan Bloom: a syllabus for ecological literacy
Place and pedagogy
Education and sustainability: an approach
What is education for?
Is environmental education an oxymoron? Having failed to manage ourselves, we will now manage the planet? An opinion from the back forty
What good is a rigorous research agenda if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? (apologies to Thoreau)
Food alchemy and sustainable agriculture