The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It) / Charles Saylan, Daniel Blumstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saylan, Charles, Author.

Blumstein, Daniel, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental education.

Environmental education--Public opinion.

Local Subjects:

Environmental education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein offer this passionate indictment of environmental education-along with a new vision for the future. Writing for general readers and educators alike, Saylan and Blumstein boldly argue that education today has failed to reach its potential in fighting climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. In this forward-looking book, they assess the current political climate, including the No Child Left Behind Act, a disaster for environmental education, and discuss how education can stimulate action-including decreasing consumption and demand, developing sustainable food and energy sources, and addressing poverty. Their multidisciplinary perspective encompasses such approaches as school gardens, using school buildings as teaching tools, and the greening of schoolyards. Arguing for a paradigm shift in the way we view education as a whole, The Failure of Environmental Education demonstrates how our education system can create new levels of awareness and work toward a sustainable future.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. The Problem(s)

2. Foundations

3. What Went Wrong

4. Accountability and Institutional Mind-Set

5. The Needs of Environmentally Active Citizens

6. Between Awareness and Action

7. A Political Primer

8. Consumption, Conservation, and Change

9. An Evolving Metric

10. And How We Can Fix It

Appendix: Greening Schools for Alternative Education

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613277831

9781283277839

1283277832

9780520948723

0520948726

OCLC:

726734846