Ecological Literacy Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World

Name: Ecological Literacy Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World
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ISBN: 9780791408742

ISBN-10: 0791408744

ISBN-13: 9780791408742

Edition: 1992

Authors: David W. Orr

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 11/8/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and the author of The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention, The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, and Ecological Literacy.



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