To know the world : a new vision for environmental learning /
Thomashow, Mitchell,
To know the world : a new vision for environmental learning / Mitchell Thomashow. - xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Why environmental learning matters -- The past and future of environmental learning -- Memory forever unfolding -- Part II. Environmental Learning in the Anthropocene -- The tides of change -- Is the Anthropocene blowing your mind? -- Part III. A new vision for environmental learning -- Constructive connectivity -- Migration: the movement of people and species -- Cosmopolitan bioregionalism -- Part IV. To know the world -- Improvisational excellence -- Perceptual reciprocity. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"A practical and poetic manifesto promoting new concepts of environmental learning: why environment, inequity, democracy, and diversity are connected challenges, how to navigate the rapid pace of change in the Anthropocene, how to better understand social and ecological networks, how to think about migration both ecologically and culturally, and how to bring a cosmopolitan perspective to place-based approaches. Covers this conceptual ground with clarity, focus, warmth, memoir, mindfulness practices, curricular ideas, and compelling narrative. It invites readers to participate as educational explorers, encouraging them to reflect on their life experiences, enabling them to better understand how and why environmental learning is crucial to human flourishing"--
0262539829 9780262539821
2020002975
Environmental education.
Human ecology.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
GE70 / .T53 2020
363.70071
To know the world : a new vision for environmental learning / Mitchell Thomashow. - xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Why environmental learning matters -- The past and future of environmental learning -- Memory forever unfolding -- Part II. Environmental Learning in the Anthropocene -- The tides of change -- Is the Anthropocene blowing your mind? -- Part III. A new vision for environmental learning -- Constructive connectivity -- Migration: the movement of people and species -- Cosmopolitan bioregionalism -- Part IV. To know the world -- Improvisational excellence -- Perceptual reciprocity. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"A practical and poetic manifesto promoting new concepts of environmental learning: why environment, inequity, democracy, and diversity are connected challenges, how to navigate the rapid pace of change in the Anthropocene, how to better understand social and ecological networks, how to think about migration both ecologically and culturally, and how to bring a cosmopolitan perspective to place-based approaches. Covers this conceptual ground with clarity, focus, warmth, memoir, mindfulness practices, curricular ideas, and compelling narrative. It invites readers to participate as educational explorers, encouraging them to reflect on their life experiences, enabling them to better understand how and why environmental learning is crucial to human flourishing"--
0262539829 9780262539821
2020002975
Environmental education.
Human ecology.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
GE70 / .T53 2020
363.70071