Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)

✍ Scribed by Heather L. Reynolds, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Jennifer Meta Robinson

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 235
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

To prepare today's students to meet growing global environmental challenges, colleges and universities must make environmental literacy a core learning goal for all students, in all disciplines. But what should an environmentally literate citizen know? What teaching and learning strategies are most effective in helping students think critically about human-environment interactions and sustainability, and integrate what they have learned in diverse settings? Educators from the natural and social sciences and the humanities discuss the critical content, skills, and affective qualities essential to environmental literacy. This volume is an invaluable resource for developing integrated, campus-wide programs to prepare students to think critically about, and to work to create, a sustainable society. (2010)

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: The Rationale for Teaching Environmental Literacy in Higher Education......Page 14
PART ONE § A MODEL FOR GRASSROOTS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY FACULTY INQUIRY......Page 20
PART TWO § CORE LEARNING GOALS FOR CAMPUS-WIDE ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY......Page 34
Overview......Page 36
At the Forest’s Edge: A Place-Based Approach to Teaching Ecosystem Services......Page 48
2 Population, Energy, and Sustainability......Page 58
3 Population, Consumption, and Environment......Page 69
4 Economics and Sustainability......Page 80
5 A Sense of Place......Page 91
6 Environmental Justice and a Sense of Place......Page 96
7 Environmental Literacy and the Lifelong Cultivation of Wonder......Page 104
8 Teaching Environmental Communication Through Rhetorical Controversy......Page 117
PART THREE § STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL
LITERACY: BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM......Page 128
Overview......Page 130
9 Effective Education for Environmental Literacy......Page 136
10 Learning in Place: The Campus as Ecosystem......Page 149
11 Environmental Literacy and Service-Learning: A Multi-Text Rendering......Page 154
12 Sense of Place and the Physical Senses in Outdoor Environmental Learning......Page 161
13 A Natural Environment for Environmental Literacy......Page 169
14 Teaching Outdoors......Page 177
PART FOUR § BEYOND COURSES: TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY ACROSS CAMPUS AND ACROSS THE CURRICULUM......Page 184
Overview......Page 186
15 Environmental Literacy and the Curriculum: An Administrative Perspective......Page 190
16 Faculty, Staff, and Student Partnerships for Environmental Literacy and Sustainability......Page 197
17 Food for Thought: A Multidisciplinary Faculty Grassroots Initiative for Sustainability and Service-Learning......Page 202
Final Thoughts......Page 211
Appendix......Page 216
List of Contributors......Page 220
Index......Page 224

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