The consensus among the world s scientists that human behavior is contributing to the life-threatening degradation of natural systems continues to be ignored by the chief supporters of the common core curriculum. These supporters corporations, politicians, and educators who promote the further expansion of the industrial/consumer and now digitally dependent lifestyle have now encoded their misconceptions and silences in the Common Core Curriculum. The education that will prepare students in the decades ahead is simply not part of the thinking of the groups promoting the reforms. An...
The consensus among the world s scientists that human behavior is contributing to the life-threatening degradation of natural systems continues to be ...
The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it is based on the deep assumptions of market liberalism that do not recognize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and context-specific forms of knowledge; (4) it undermines awareness of the metaphorical nature of language; (5) its promoters are driven by the myth of progress and thus ignore important cultural traditions of the cultural commons that are being lost; and (6) it both...
The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites co...
The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it is based on the deep assumptions of market liberalism that do not recognize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and context-specific forms of knowledge; (4) it undermines awareness of the metaphorical nature of language; (5) its promoters are driven by the myth of progress and thus ignore important cultural traditions of the cultural commons that are being lost; and (6) it both...
The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites co...
Chet Bowers wrote his first book on the connections between education, cultural ways of knowing, and the ecological crisis in 1974. Since then he has written more than 20 books that variously explore two concerns: how language reproduces ways of thinking that were formed before there was an awareness of ecological limits, and how the world's diverse cultural commons can serve as sites of resistance to economic globalization and further environmental degradation. In this book he focuses attention on the cultural and linguistic roots of the ecological crisis and claims that these have been...
Chet Bowers wrote his first book on the connections between education, cultural ways of knowing, and the ecological crisis in 1974. Since then he has ...
