Rekindling Memories of Yesterday’s Children: Making the Case for Nature-Based...
Abstract This study examined adults’ feelings towards the environment in relation to recalled memories of childhood play. Today’s adults often associate scouting, summer camps, or playing in a creek...
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Teaching Sustainability As If Your Life Depended on It: A Photo Essay of Fort...
The purpose of education, according to some Native Americans, is to ensure the survival of people, -Gary Holthaus, Learning Native Wisdom In his many years living in rural Alaska, Gary Holthaus learned...
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Catlin Gabel School—a Focus on Food
The interdisciplinary study of food has emerged as a theme in sustainability education at Catlin Gabel School, an independent, co-educational school with 725 students in preschool through 12th grade in...
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The Value of Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Western Science and Environmental...
Sustainability has been defined and redefined for decades, yet remains an elusive concept to most. In many ways it has lost its power to stir our imaginations because of overuse. When linked to...
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The Heart of Sustainability: Big Ideas from the field of Environmental...
Introduction A common raven suddenly begins to call from Cornwall Park. I rush to the front porch trying to see what the commotion is all about. Two adult ravens are flapping high over the green...
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Let Us Learn Again to Nourish a Gifted Subsistence
I am no newcomer to the question of how it is we might sustain ourselves. A half century ago I was embedded in what these days we would call a subsistence life. By age nine I knew how to grow a...
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Sponsoring the Journal of Sustainability Education
Sponsoring the Journal of Sustainability Education The Journal of Sustainability Education is actively seeking partners, sponsors, and donors to collaborate on moving the field of sustainability...
View ArticleCompost, Blossom, Metamorph, Hurricane – Complexity and Emergent Education...
This work proposes a novel theoretical framework for sustainability education and explores four possible applications of the framework. Insights from complexity and complexity education elide with...
View ArticleSustainability in Outdoor Education: Rethinking Root Metaphor
Recognizing that behavior comes not only from understanding, but also from attitudes cultivated in outdoor settings that elicit visceral feelings toward nature, outdoor educators have unique...
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Generations on the Land: A Conservation Legacy, by Joe Nick Patoski. A review.
The landscape of any farm is the owner’s portrait of himself. -Aldo Leopold With regard to management of working lands (private lands engaged in the production of food and fiber), sustainability...
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Catskills-Inspired Learning: Place and Design in a Community College Program
PDF: le Roux Ohm Winter2013 Abstract: Drawing on various dimensions of place, pedagogies of place, and the relationship between place and design, this article presents a case study of place-based...
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The Greening of the Language Arts: Considering Sustainability Outside of the...
PDF: McClanahanWinter2013 Abstract: If the concept of sustainability is studied at all in middle or high school, chances are that study is taking place in the science classroom. After all, the topic...
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Sacred Ice Melting Away: Lessons from the impact of climate change on Andean...
Copyright Constanza Ceruti PDF: CerutiWinter2013 For many centuries, the role of mountains as custodians of the sacred ice and givers of life-sustaining water has been ritually acknowledged throughout...
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The Oikos of Rural Children: A Lesson for the Adults in Experiential Education
PDF: Kassam&AveryJSESpring2013 The Oikos of Rural Children[1]: A Lesson for the Adults in Experiential Education Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Department of Natural Resources & American...
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Review of Ecoliterate: How Educators are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and...
PDF: Roger CossSpring2013 Abstract: Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett, and Zenobia Barlow, in their book Ecoliterate: How Educators are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence,...
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A Conversation Starter: Amplifying Outdoor Adventure Education as an...
PDF: JeffGloverJSESpring2013 A Conversation Starter: Amplifying Outdoor Adventure Education as an Innovative Tool for the 21st Century Jeff Glover- Founder, Adventure Movement Project Abstract: This...
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Only Experience Can Bring Us To The Truth
PDF: GarveyJSESpring2013 Only Experience Can Bring Us To The Truth Dan Garvey, Institute for Sustainable Social Change Key Words: experiential education; climate change;...
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Experiencing Sustainability: Thinking Deeper About Experiential Education in...
PDF: RobertsJSESpring2013 Abstract: Jack Turner (2005) once wrote “we treat the natural world according to our experience of it.” How are our students “experiencing sustainability”...
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Building and boarding a bigger boat together: Learning about sustainability...
PDF: LauraYoder et al June 2013 Introduction The sustainability movement needs a much bigger constituency. In the words of Richard Louv (2012), “we need a bigger boat” that...
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Back to the Future: Revisiting the “Whole Earth” Concept of Sustainable Tools...
Abstract: The “Whole Earth Catalog” (1968-1972) featured a collection of creative ideas, articles, and durable, practical tools promoted from a utilitarian, environmentally conscious, and intellectual...
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