Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness: Selected Transformative Practices

ISBN-13: 9781403963048 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 266 str.

Edmund O'Sullivan; Marilyn Taylor

Opis

In their latest book, Edmund O'Sullivan and Marilyn Taylor highlight the pedagogical practices that foster transformation from our current way of thinking about our place in the world to an underlying ecological way of seeing and acting. "Learning Towards Ecological Consciousness" offers the reader a selection of transformative practices that demonstrate, in specific contexts, the complex journey and contextual conditions that move us forward towards a deeper realization that we are part of the world around us, holding a greater promise for deeper ecological awareness. To this end, thirteen chapters offer a rich array of practices in diverse life settings--educational environments, communities and workplaces and personal relationships. Contributors and their material represent a range of cultures, work setting and professions. The aspect of O'Sullivan and Taylor's new book that distinguishes it from other books in the field is its exploration of how consciousness can be transformed through practices, experience and action.

Spis treści

Introduction * Glimpses of an Ecological Consciousness - Edmund V. O'Sullivan and Marilyn M. Taylor * Educational Ecologies and Embodied Knowledge * Transformative Learning for Bioregional Citizenship - Laurent A. Parks Daloz * Learning Ecology: Experiences from Social Ecology in Australia - Stuart Hill, Steve Wilson and Kevin Watson * Leadership Education in a Socio-Ecological Perspective: Working at the Paradigmatic Interface - Don W. deGuerre and Marilyn M. Taylor * The Ecology of Learning and Work: Learning for Transformative Work Practices - Marilyn Laiken * Learning through Engagement in the Life World * A Pueblo Story for Transformation - Gregory Cajete * Midwifing Transformative Change * Nurturing the Internal Flame: How Environmentalist Sustain their Commitment to Work - Jessica Kovan and John Dirkx * A Transformation Model for Passion in the Workplace - Patricia Boverie and Michael Kroth * The Dynamic Relation of Personal Agency in Community Context * Personal and Social Transformation: A Complementary Process toward an Ecological Consciousness - Yuka Hashimoto * Holding Flames: Women Illuminating Knowledge of s/Self Transformation - Eimear O'Neill * From Intersubjective Therapy to Esprit Networking: Mapping a Social Process - Barbara Dewar and Sandra Campbell * Fostering Ways-of-Giving within Communities - Valerie Petrie * Transformative Rungs on Wisdom's Ladder - Merriam Bleyl and Patricia Boverie

O autorze

EDMUND V. O'SULLIVAN is the Director of the Transformative Learning Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, at the University of Toronto.

AMISH MORRELL is a doctoral candidate, OISE, University of Toronto.

MARY ANN O'CONNOR is a doctoral candidate, OISE, University of Toronto.