Ecojustice adult education : theory and practice in the cultivation of the cultural commons
Dentith, Audrey M.; Griswold, Wendy
Date:
2017
Support matériel:
Ressource électronique
Type de document:
Livre
Langue:
eng
ISBN:
9781119383512
Éditeur:
Jossey-Bass
Description matérielle:
1 ressource en ligne (105 pages)
Note:
Comprend des références bibliographiques et un index
Note de dépouillement:
1. Sustainability, Ecojustice, and Adult Education, Wendy Griswold, This chapter explores a continuum of perspectives related to the environment and education and highlights sustainability and ecojustice education theory and practices in this volume.
2. Critical Culture: Environmental Adult Education in Public Museums, Lorraine Bell, Darlene E. Clover, This chapter explores how museums, as educational and cultural institutions, can become agents of socioecological transformation.
3. The St. Ignatius Jesuit Retreat and Training Centre: Cultivating Ecological Awareness and Connection with the Earth, Janet Groen, This chapter focuses on the role of religiously based spirituality in cultivating environmental awareness and citizenship by examining an adult environmental education program offered at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre, a religious retreat center in Guelph, Canada.
4. Adult Learning in Alternative Food Networks, Catherine Etmanski, Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell, This chapter describes how small-scale organic farmers are key leaders in the transformation of food systems.
5. An Ecojustice Approach to Educational Reform in Adult Education, Chet A. Bowers, This paper describes the key principles of an ecojustice approach to adult education.
6. Teaching Adult Ecojustice Education, Audrey M. Dentith, Onah P. Thompson, An ecojustice seminar, held in May 2016 at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, is described in this chapter.
7. Community Currencies: An Ideology of Abundance, Nancy Winfrey, This chapter describes a small town in North Carolina that adopted a local currency as a means to revitalize the cultural commons.
8. Transition Framingham: The Cultural Commons in Action, Emily Kearns Burke, This chapter examines the revitalization of the cultural commons in one Massachusetts community.
Sujet:
Éducation relative à l'environnement; Développement durable; Environnement (Écologie); Éducation des adultes
Documents liés:
New directions for adult and continuing education ; number 153
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