Teaching environmental literacy : across campus and across the curriculum / edited by Heather L. Reynolds ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reynolds, Heather L.

Series:

Indiana series in the scholarship of teaching and learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental education.

Environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

xviii, 216 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Rationale for Teaching Environmental Literacy in Higher Education

PART ONE A MODEL FOR GRASSROOTS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY FACULTY INQUIRY

PART TWO CORE LEARNING GOALS FOR CAMPUS-WIDE ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY

Overview

At the Forest's Edge: A Place-Based Approach to Teaching Ecosystem Services

2 Population, Energy, and Sustainability

3 Population, Consumption, and Environment

4 Economics and Sustainability

5 A Sense of Place

6 Environmental Justice and a Sense of Place

7 Environmental Literacy and the Lifelong Cultivation of Wonder

8 Teaching Environmental Communication Through Rhetorical Controversy

PART THREE STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY: BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM

9 Effective Education for Environmental Literacy

10 Learning in Place: The Campus as Ecosystem

11 Environmental Literacy and Service-Learning: A Multi-Text Rendering

12 Sense of Place and the Physical Senses in Outdoor Environmental Learning

13 A Natural Environment for Environmental Literacy

14 Teaching Outdoors

PART FOUR BEYOND COURSES: TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY ACROSS CAMPUS AND ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

15 Environmental Literacy and the Curriculum: An Administrative Perspective

16 Faculty, Staff, and Student Partnerships for Environmental Literacy and Sustainability

17 Food for Thought: A Multidisciplinary Faculty Grassroots Initiative for Sustainability and Service-Learning

Final Thoughts

Appendix

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-53989-2

9786612539893

0-253-00405-5

OCLC:

611523922