Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World
by Orr, David W.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-01-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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