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To know the world : a new vision for environmental learning / Mitchell Thomashow.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]Description: xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262539829
  • 9780262539821
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.70071 23
LOC classification:
  • GE70 .T53 2020
Contents:
Part I. Why environmental learning matters -- 1. The past and future of environmental learning -- 2. Memory forever unfolding -- Part II. Environmental Learning in the Anthropocene -- 3. The tides of change -- 4. Is the Anthropocene blowing your mind? -- Part III. A new vision for environmental learning -- 5. Constructive connectivity -- 6. Migration: the movement of people and species -- 7. Cosmopolitan bioregionalism -- Part IV. To know the world -- 8. Improvisational excellence -- 9. Perceptual reciprocity.
Summary: "A practical and poetic manifesto promoting new concepts of environmental learning: why environment, inequity, democracy, and diversity are connected challenges, how to navigate the rapid pace of change in the Anthropocene, how to better understand social and ecological networks, how to think about migration both ecologically and culturally, and how to bring a cosmopolitan perspective to place-based approaches. Covers this conceptual ground with clarity, focus, warmth, memoir, mindfulness practices, curricular ideas, and compelling narrative. It invites readers to participate as educational explorers, encouraging them to reflect on their life experiences, enabling them to better understand how and why environmental learning is crucial to human flourishing"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks GE70 .T53 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001498889

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Why environmental learning matters -- 1. The past and future of environmental learning -- 2. Memory forever unfolding -- Part II. Environmental Learning in the Anthropocene -- 3. The tides of change -- 4. Is the Anthropocene blowing your mind? -- Part III. A new vision for environmental learning -- 5. Constructive connectivity -- 6. Migration: the movement of people and species -- 7. Cosmopolitan bioregionalism -- Part IV. To know the world -- 8. Improvisational excellence -- 9. Perceptual reciprocity.

"A practical and poetic manifesto promoting new concepts of environmental learning: why environment, inequity, democracy, and diversity are connected challenges, how to navigate the rapid pace of change in the Anthropocene, how to better understand social and ecological networks, how to think about migration both ecologically and culturally, and how to bring a cosmopolitan perspective to place-based approaches. Covers this conceptual ground with clarity, focus, warmth, memoir, mindfulness practices, curricular ideas, and compelling narrative. It invites readers to participate as educational explorers, encouraging them to reflect on their life experiences, enabling them to better understand how and why environmental learning is crucial to human flourishing"-- Provided by publisher.

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