| Description |
xix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Bioneers series |
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Bioneers series.
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| Contents |
Foreword / David W. Orr -- Preface / Fritjof Capra -- Introduction / Zenobia Barlow and Michael K. Stone -- En'owkin : decision-making as if sustainability mattered / Jeannette C. Armstrong -- Speaking nature's language : principles for sustainability / Fritjof Capra -- Solving for pattern / Wendell Berry -- The power of words / Ernest Callenbach -- Values / Ernest Callenbach -- Fast-food values and slow food values / Alice Waters -- The slow school : an idea whose time has come? / Maurice Holt -- Indian pedagogy : a look at traditional California Indian teaching techniques / Malcolm Margolin -- Okanagan education for sustainable living : as natural as learning to walk or talk / Jeannette C. Armstrong -- Place and pedagogy / David W. Orr -- Recollection / David W. Orr -- On watershed education / Robert Hass -- Helping children fall in love with the earth : environmental education and the arts / Pamela Michael -- Finding your own bioregion / Peter Berg -- Revolution step-by-step : on building a climate for change / Neil Smith and Leslie Comnes -- Leadership and the learning community / Jeanne Casella, Zenobia Barlow, Sara Marcellino and Michael K. Stone -- "It changed everything we thought we could do" : the STRAW project / Michael K. stone -- Raising whole children is like raising good food : beyond factory farming and factory schooling / Michael Ableman -- Meditations on an apple / Janet Brown -- Dancing with systems / Donella Meadows -- The loupe's secret : looking closely, changing scale / Kerry Ruef -- Tapping the well of Urban youth activism : literacy for environmental justice / Dana Lanza -- Sustainability - a new item on the lunch menu / Michael K. Stone -- Rethinking school lunch / Marilyn Briggs -- Changing schools : a systems view / Ann Evans |
| Summary |
"Ecological Literacy marries theory and practice based on the best thinking about how the world actually works and how learning occurs. Parents and educators everywhere 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Study and teaching.
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Environmental education.
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| Author |
Stone, Michael K.
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Barlow, Zenobia.
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| LC no. |
2005049908 |
| ISBN |
1578051533 paperback alkaline paper |
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