Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World

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ISBN: 9780791408742 | 0791408744
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/1992

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The essays in this volume were written between 1984 and 1989 for different audiences and for different purposes. They represent an extended reflection on the crisis of sustainability now looming before the modern world, and what this portends for the theory and practice of education.

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Introduction
The Issue of SustainabilitY
The Problem of Sustainability
Two Meanings of Sustainability
A Tale of Two Systems: Sustainability in International Perspectives
Fragments of Strategy
Education
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?
What Knowledge? For What Purposes?
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
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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