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Ecological Literacy:

Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World
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SUNY Press, 1992 - Education - 210 pages
The essays in this volume were written between 1984 and 1989 for different audiences and for different purposes. They represent an extended reflection on the crisis of sustainability now looming before the modern world, and what this portends for the theory and practice of education.
  

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Contents

The Problem of Sustainability
3
Two Meanings of Sustainability
23
A Tale of Two Systems Sustainability in International Perspective
41
Fragments of Strategy
61
Education
81
Ecological Literacy
85
The Liberal Arts the Campus and the Biosphere An Alternative to Blooms Vision of Education
97
A Prerequisite to the Great Books of Allan Bloom A Syllabus for Ecological Literacy
109
What is Education For?
141
Is Environmental Education an Oxymoron?
149
What Knowledge? For What Purposes?
153
Having Failed to Manage Ourselves We Will Now Manage the Planet? An Opinion from the Back Forty
157
What Good is a Rigorous Research Agenda if You Dont Have a Decent Planet to Put it On? Apologies to Thoreau
163
Food Alchemy and Sustainable Agriculture
167
Epilogue
181
Notes
185

Place and Pedagogy
125
Education and Sustainability An Approach
133

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JSTOR: Ecological Literacy and the University
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About the author (1992)

David W. Orr is Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He is the author of Ecological Literacy and Earth in Mind, as well as more than 100 published articles. Among other awards, he has received a Lyndhurst Prize Fellowship and the National Wildlife
Federation's National Achievement Award.

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