Environmental Adult Education: Ecological Learning, Theory, Practice - New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 99

Klappentext Environmental adult education brings an ecological perspective to studies of adult learning by concretizing the interconnections between people's experiences of environmental deterioration and recognition of the destructive powers of the global economy. Zusammenfassung Aims to situate environmental adult education within a socio-political and eco-epistemological framework. This volume explores how language and metaphors can counteract problematic modern worldviews! and also analyzes the potential of environmental! justice-based learning to combat socio-environmental oppressions. Inhaltsverzeichnis EDITORS' NOTES (Lilian H. Hill! Darlene E. Clover). 1. Environmental Adult Education: Critique and Creativity in a Globalizing World (Darlene E. Clover) Emerging principles and practices of environmental adult education provide a contemporary lens through which adult educators can examine globalization and make stronger links to grassroots and global activism. 2. Adult Education and Humanity's Relationship with Nature Reflected in Language! Metaphor! and Spirituality: A Call to Action (Lilian H. Hill! Julie D. Johnston) By reexamining our use of language and creating new metaphors! environmental adult educators can rebuild spiritual relationships with the rest of nature. 3. Environmental Justice: Environmental Adult Education at the Confluence of Oppressions (Robert J. Hill) To be most effective! environmental adult education must include a social justice framework that addresses environmental racism and helps to build more equitable and democratic societies. 4. Environmental Adult Education and Community Sustainability (Jennifer Sumner) The author presents ideas for a new framework of sustainability for adult education that can help communities survive and thrive in the age of globalization. 5. Environmental Popular Education and Indigenous Social Movements in India (Dip Kapoor) Practical and theoretical considerations regarding environmental popular education with and for indigenous peoples struggling against destructive development practices in India are explored. 6. Environmental Adult Education: Women Living the Tensions (Lee Karlovic! Kathryn Patrick) The authors describe women's ecological learning in a workshop that moved them beyond a focus on individual change toward the connections between environmental problems! media and marketing! and activism. 7. Words for the World: Creating Critical Environmental Literacy for Adults (Ralf St. Clair) Moving away from a focus on scientific knowledge! environmental adult literacy taps into the ecological wisdom of learners and stimulates more critical engagement. 8. Learning Environments and Environmental Education (Paul Belanger) An exploration of the concepts of an ecology of learning and learning environments can challenge ongoing antienvironmental practices in today's educational systems. 9. Learning Patterns of Landscape and Life (Darlene E. Clover! Lilian H. Hill) Drawing together the main themes of the chapters! the volume's editors highlight the importance of the ecological dimension in adult education in today's world and provide suggestions for further reading. INDEX. ...

Product details

• Authors: ACE, CLOVER, Hill, Lilian H. Clover Hill
• Assisted by: Darlene E. Clover (Editor), Darlene Elaine Clover (Editor), Lilian H. Hill (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2003
• EAN: 9780787971700
• ISBN: 978-0-7879-7170-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: New Directions for Adult & Con; New Directions for Adult & Con
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education