Prioritizing Sustainability Education: A Comprehensive Approach

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Synopsis
Prioritizing Sustainability Education presents theory-to-practice essays and case studies by educators from six countries who elucidate dynamic approaches to sustainability education. Too often, students graduate with exploitative, consumer-driven orientations toward ecosystems and are unprepared to confront the urgent challenges presented by environmental degradation. Educators are prioritizing sustainability-oriented courses and programs that cultivate students’ knowledge, skills, and values and contextualize them within relational connections to local and global ecosystems. Little has yet been written, however, about the comprehensive sustainability education that educators are currently designing and implementing, often across or at the edges of disciplinary boundaries. The approaches described in this book expand beyond conventional emphases on developing students’ attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors by thinking and talking about ecosystems to additionally engaging students with ecosystems in sensory, affective, psychological, and cognitive dimensions, as well as imaginative, spiritual, or existential dimensions that guide environmental care and regeneration. This book supports educators and graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the humanities, social sciences, environmental studies, environmental sciences, and professional programs in considering how to reorient their fields toward relational sustainability perspectives and practices.
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780429664243
Related ISBNs:
9780429021800, 9780367076436, 9780367076436, 9781138391291, 9781138391291
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Joan Armon, Stephen Scoffham and Chara Armon
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Education, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Joan Armon
Edited by:
Stephen Scoffham
Edited by:
Chara Armon

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