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on weaving education, culture, and the environment
1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) : illustrations
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 community.
Stories from our common roots : strategies for building an ecologically sustainable way of learning / Joseph Kiefer and Martin Kemple -- Deepening children's participation through local ecological investigations / Paul Krapfel -- From human waste to the gift of soil / Madhu Suri Prakash and Hedy Richardson -- From margin to center : initiation and development of an environmental school from the ground up / Dilafruz R. Williams and Sarah Taylor -- Exploring children's picture books through ecofeminist literacy / Elaine G. Schwartz -- Education indigenous to place : Western science meets native reality / Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley and Ray Barnhardt -- Liberation and compassion in environmental studies / Stephanie Kaza -- Changing the dominant culture perspective in education / C.A. Bowers -- Environmental autobiography in undergraduate educational studies / Peter Blaze Corcoran -- Reclaiming biophilia : lessons from indigenous peoples / Gregory Cajete -- Creating a public of environmentalists : the role of nonformal education / Gregory A. Smith -- Reassembling the pieces : ecological design and the liberal arts / David W. Orr.
edited by Gregory A. Smith and Dilafruz R. Williams.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Environmental Science (see also Chemistry
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, �1999