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Ecological literacy : education and the transition to a postmodern world
- Title
- Ecological literacy : education and the transition to a postmodern world / David W. Orr.
- Author
- Orr, David W., 1944-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | LB41 .O745 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 210 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The most important discoveries of the 20th century exist not in the realm of science, medicine, or technology, but rather in the dawning awareness of the earth's limits and how those limits will affect human evolution. Humanity has reached a crossroad where various ecological catastrophes meet what some call sustainable development. While a great deal of attention has been given to what governments, corporations, utilities, international agencies, and private citizens can do to help in the transition to sustainability, little thought has been given to what schools, colleges, and universities can do. Ecological Literacy asks how the discovery of finiteness affects the content and substance of education. Given the limits of the earth, what should people know and how should they learn it?
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The problem of sustainability -- Two meanings of sustainability -- A tale of two systems: sustainability in international perspective -- Fragments of strategy -- 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?
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0791408736
- 9780791408735
- 0791408744
- 9780791408742
- LCCN
- 90028767
- OCLC
- ocm22951790
- 22951790
- SCSB-8899666
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library