PDF:CirilloandHoylerSpring2014 Also see outside source for more information here Key Words: Sustainability Education, State of the Field, Shelburne Farms, Alternative Schools, Place-Based Education Education for sustainability (EFS) is a lens that considers environmental & ecological integrity, economic vitality, and social justice/equity. Building upon big ideas, such as systems-thinking, interdependence, and community, EFS uses […]
Continue ReadingPDF:AndresSpring2014 Key Words: Sustainability Education, State of the Field, EdTracks, Systems Thinking Learning Outcomes Enduring Understandings/Big Ideas: Systems thinking, interdependence, human/nature connections, the self and well-being, patterns of nature and of human systems; viable economies, social/equity concerns, stewardship, respect for nature’s limits; regeneration, intergenerational thinking, resilience thinking, Content Knowledge: Ecological economics, systems theory, […]
Continue ReadingPDF:PramodSpring2014 Key Words: Sustainability Education, State of the Field, Prescott College, Ph.D. Program in Sustainability Education The problems we are facing are linked. It is not a set of problems. It is a system of problems. Now it is time to look at the system of solutions. – Janine Benyus, Nobel Laureate Symposium, 2011. […]
Continue ReadingPDF:SmithSpring2014 Key words: Sustainability Education, state of the field, place, community, problem-solving, action When trying to consolidate my thinking about sustainability education in preparation for a talk a few years ago, I asked myself two questions: What is sustainability? And what kinds of people seem most likely to help humanity move in that […]
Continue ReadingFor the past seven years, I have been creating and facilitating professional development workshops focusing on Earth literacy and sustainability for faculty at Miami Dade College (MDC), Florida, the largest community college in the United States. With the support of the college’s Earth Ethics Institute, I organize a lunch and learn series called Wisdom Luncheons, oversee an organic campus garden project, facilitate workshops on sustainability education, and teach graduate classes focusing on sustainability, globalization, education, and Earth literacy for our faculty. 175,000 students currently attend MDC, so the potential to transform the community through education is enormous. It is no surprise then that ideas about sustainability education swirl through my head during most waking hours, and occasionally, they occupy my dreams as well.
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