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Ecological Literacy : Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

by: Edited by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia BarlowPreface by Fritjof CapraForew

ISBN: 9781578051533 | 1578051533

Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Pub. Date: 10/1/2005

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Summary Table of Contents

Reorienting the way human beings live on the Earth and educating children to their highest capacities have much in common, say the thinkers and educators behind this groundbreaking book. Both endeavors must be viewed and pursued in the context of systems: familial, geographic, ecological, political. And our efforts to build sustainable communities cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to their mutual benefit. In other words, they must become "ecologically literate." The concept of "ecological literac... MOREy" advanced by this book's creators, the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, extends beyond the discipline of environmental education. It aims, as David W. Orr writes in his foreword, "toward a deeper transformation of the substance, process, and scope of education at all levels." The reports and essays gathered here reveal the remarkable work being conducted by the center's extensive network of partners. In one middle school, for example, culinary icon Alice Waters founded a program that not only provides students with healthy meals but teaches them to garden--and thus to study life cycles and energy flows--as part of their curriculum. Other hands-on student projects supported by the center and described in this book range from stream restoration and watershed exploration to confronting environmental justice issues at the neighborhood level. With contributions from distinguished writers and educators, such as Fritjof Capra, Wendell Berry, and Michael Ableman, "Ecological Literacy "marries theory and practice based on the best thinking about how the world actually works and how learning occurs. Parents and educatorseverywhere who are engaged in creative efforts to develop new curricula and improve children's ecological understanding will find this book to be an invaluable resource.

Our efforts to build a sustainable world cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to our mutual benefit. In other words, children must become "ecologically literate." The concept of ecological literacy advanced by this book's creators, the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, goes beyond the discipline of environmental education. It aims, says David Orr in his foreword, "toward a deeper transformation of the substance, process, and scope of education at all levels"familial, geographic, ecological, and political. The reports and essays gathered here reveal the remarkable work being done by the Center's network of partners. In one middle school, for example, culinary icon Alice Waters founded a program that not only gives students healthy meals but teaches them to gardenand thus to study life cycles and energy flows. Other hands-on student projects described here range from stream restoration and watershed exploration to confronting environmental justice issues at the neighborhood level. With contributions from distinguished writers and educators, such as Fritjof Capra, Wendell Berry, and Michael Ableman,Ecological Literacyreflects the best thinking about how the world actually works and how learning occurs. Parents and educators everywhere will find it an invaluable resource.

Foreword

David W. Orr

Preface

xiii

Fritjof Capra

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

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(10)

Zenobia Barlow

Michael K. Stone

Part I. Vision

En'owkin: Decision-Making as if Sustainability Mattered

(7)

Jeannette C. Armstrong

Speaking Nature's Language: Principles for Sustainability

(12)

Fritjof Capra

Solving for Pattern

(11)

Wendell Berry

The Power of Words

(4)

Ernest Callenbach

Values

(4)

Ernest Callenbach

Fast-Food Values and Slow Food Values

(7)

Alice Waters

The Slow School: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

(11)

Maurice Holt

Part II. Tradition/Place

Indian Pedagogy: A Look at Traditional California Indian Teaching Techniques

(13)

Malcolm Margolin

Okanagan Education for Sustainable Living: As Natural as Learning to Walk or Talk

(5)

Jeannette C. Armstrong

Place and Pedagogy

(11)

David W. Orr

Recollection

(11)

David W. Orr

On Watershed Education

107

(4)

Robert Hass

Helping Children Fall in Love with the Earth: Environmental Education and the Arts

111

(15)

Pamela Michael

Finding Your Own Bioregion

126

(9)

Peter Berg

Part III. Relationship

Revolution Step-by-Step: On Building a Climate for Change

135

(14)

Neil Smith

Leslie Comnes

Leadership and the Learning Community

149

(12)

Jeanne Casella

Zenobia Barlow

Sara Marcellino

Michael K. Stone

``It Changed Everything We Thought We Could Do'': The Straw Project

161

(14)

Michael K. Stone

Raising Whole Children Is Like Raising Good Food: Beyond Factory Farming and Factory Schooling

175

(9)

Michael Ableman

Meditations on an Apple

184

(9)

Janet Brown

Part IV. Action

Dancing with Systems

193

(13)

Donella Meadows

The Loupe's Secret: Looking Closely, Changing Scale

206

(7)

Kerry Ruef

Tapping the Well of Urban Youth Activism: Literacy for Environmental Justice

213

(14)

Dana Lanza

Sustainability---A New Item on the Lunch Menu

227

(14)

Michael K. Stone

Rethinking School Lunch

241

(9)

Marilyn Briggs

Changing Schools: A Systems View

250

(9)

Ann Evans

Resources

259

(10)

Publication Credits

269

(2)

About the Editors

271

(2)

About Bioneers

273

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