Ecological education in action : on weaving education, culture, and the environment

Book

Ecological education in action : on weaving education, culture, and the environment / edited by Gregory A. Smith and Dilafruz R. Williams.

Smith, Gregory A., 1948- (Added Author). Williams, Dilafruz R., 1949- (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0791439852
ISBN: 9780791439852
ISBN: 0791439860
ISBN: 9780791439869
Physical Description: vii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.