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Greening the college curriculum : a guide to environmental teaching in the liberal arts : a project of the Rainforest Alliance / edited by Jonathan Collett and Stephen Karakashian.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Humanistic--Curricula--United States.
- Education, Humanistic.
- Environmental education--Curricula--United States.
- Environmental education.
- Education, Higher--Curricula--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature, journalism, philosophy, political science, and religion, describe their experience introducing environmental issues into their teaching. The book provides: * a rationale for including material on the environment in the teaching of the basic concepts of each discipline * guidelines for constructing a unit or a full course at the introductory level that makes use of environmental subjects * sample plans for upper-level courses * a compendium of annotated resources, both print and nonprint Contributors to the volume include David Orr, David G. Campbell, Lisa Naughton, Emily Young, John Opie, Holmes Rolston III, Michael E. Kraft, Steven Rockefeller, and others.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Reinventing Higher Education; Anthropology; Biology; Economics; Geography; History; Literature; Media and Journalism; Philosophy; Political Science; Religion; Reinventing the Classroom: Connected Teaching; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61091-080-X
- 1-59726-883-6
- 1-4175-3930-5
- OCLC:
- 923186799
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