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Lin, Jing, (1962-.)

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Transformative eco-education for human and planetary survival /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transformative eco-education for human and planetary survival // edited by Rebecca L. Oxford, Jing Lin.
other author:	Lin, Jing,
Published:	Charlotte, NC :Information Age Pub., : c2012.,
Description:	xxii, 386 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
Subject:	Environmental education. -
ISBN:	9781617355035 (hbk.) :

Transformative eco-education for human and planetary survival /
Transformative eco-education for human and planetary survival /edited by Rebecca L. Oxford, Jing Lin. - Charlotte, NC :Information Age Pub.,c2012. - xxii, 386 p. :ill. ;24 cm. - Transforming education for the future..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A volume in Transforming Education for the Future Series Editors Jing Lin, University of Maryland and Rebecca Oxford, Air University Transformative eco-education is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists merely to provide for human comfort; the extinction or reduction of other species does not matter; we are free to consume or destroy natural resources at will but are safe from destruction ourselves; and the Earth will continue to sustain us, even if we do not sustain the Earth. Unless these concepts are changed, we will increase global warming and add to the ruin of much of the Earth. This book presents powerful ideas for transformative eco- education. At this time of ever-increasing ecological crisis, such education is needed more than ever before. We urge readers to use the ideas and activities in this book with your students, develop them further, and create new conceptions to share with other educators and students. The chapters in this book provide key principles, of which the following are just a few. First, educators can and should prepare students for natural disasters. Second, stories, case studies, the arts, and hands-on environmental experience, all enriched by reflection and discussion, can offer profound learning about ecology. Third, education at all levels can benefit from a true ecological emphasis. Fourth, teachers must receive preparation in how to employ transformative eco-education. Fifth, Indigenous wisdom can offer important, holistic, spiritual paths to understanding and caring for nature, and other spiritual traditions also provide valid ways of comprehending humans as part of the universal web of existence. Sixth, transformative eco-education can be an antidote to not only to environmental breakdown, but also to materialistic overconsumption and moral confusion. Seventh, we can only heal the Earth by also healing ourselves. If we heed these principles, together we can make transformative eco-education a blazing torch to light the path for the current century and beyond.

ISBN: 9781617355035 (hbk.) :US85.99

LCCN: 2011020341Subjects--Topical Terms:

528212
Environmental education.

LC Class. No.: GE70 / .T73 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 333.73071

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