Teaching environmental literacy : across campus and across the curriculum

Clasificación: GE 70 T253 2010 | Agregado: 07/10/2020

editado por Heather L. Reynolds, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Jennifer Meta Robinson, con Doug Karpa y Briana L. Gross. -- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.
216 p.; 23 cm. -- (Scholarship of teaching and learning)
ISBN 978-0-253-22150-6.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
Contenido: Introduction: The rationale for teaching environmental literacy in higher education -- A model for grassroots, multidisciplinary faculty inquiry -- Core learning goals for campus-wide environmental literacy -- Overview -- At the forests edge: A place-based approach to teaching ecosystem services -- Population, energy, and sustainability -- Population, consumption, and environment -- Economics and sustainability -- A sense of place -- Environmental justice and a sense of place -- Environmental literacy and the lifelong cultivation of wonder -- Teaching environmental communication through rhetorical controversy -- Strategies for teaching environmental literacy: Beyond the traditional classroom -- Overview -- Effective education for environmental literacy -- Learning in place: The campus as ecosystem -- Environmental literacy and service-learning: A multi-text rendering -- Sense of place and the physical senses in outdoor environmental learning -- A natural environment for environmental literacy -- Teaching outdoors -- Beyond courses: Teaching environmental literacy across campus and across the curriculum -- Overview -- Environmental literacy and the curriculum: An administrative perspective -- Faculty, staff, and student partnerships for environmental literacy and sustainability -- Food for thought: A multidisciplinary faculty grassroots initiative for sustainability and service-learning -- Final thoughts -- Appendix.