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Educating for a Culture of Social and Ecological Peace by Anita L. Wenden

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By Anita L. Wenden

Examines the overlapping goals, values, and ideas in peace and environmental education.

Acknowledging the twin notions of probability and chance that current themselves in modern social and ecological crises, this publication explores how either peace and environmental schooling can remodel the way in which we expect and what we worth. The booklet outlines the hyperlink among social violence and ecological degradation and the necessity to train for the aim of attaining social and ecological peace. experts in peace and environmental schooling provide a holistic and built-in method on instructing approximately those difficulties and demanding situations. additionally they supply academic ideas, akin to curricular frameworks and pedagogical strategies applicable for either formal and casual settings, and case reviews and examples that illustrate their application.

“At as soon as compact and bold, this amazing booklet examines a large choice of texts that take care of problems with the Earth’s swiftly dwindling traditional resources.” — CHOICE

"This ebook deals the main entire and cogently argued case for conjoining environmental, social justice, and peace schooling that i've got encountered. The authors current a multifaceted imaginative and prescient of why such schooling is required and what it may seem like. i stopped each one bankruptcy with a feeling of highbrow pleasure and gratitude. i glance ahead to utilizing the booklet in my classes." — Gregory A. Smith, coeditor of Ecological schooling in motion: On Weaving schooling, tradition, and the Environment

Contributors comprise Abelardo Brenes, Peter Blaze Corcoran, Ian Harris, Fanny Heymann, Patricia M. Mische, Isabel Orellana, Lucie Sauvé, Frans C. Verhagen, Arjen E. J. Wals, and Anita L. Wenden.

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Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. Kaza, S. (1999). Liberation and compassion in environmental studies. In G. Smith & D. ), Ecological education in action: On weaving education, culture and the environment (pp. 143–160). Albany, NY: State Universit y of New York Press. Kotlyakov, V. M. (1991). The Aral Sea Basin: A critical environmental zone. Environment, 33 (1), 4–38. Maxwell, A. M. (2002). Educating for peace in the midst of violence: A South African experience. Paper presented at the 19th conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPR A), Suwon, South Korea.

Albany, NY: State Universit y of New York Press. Kotlyakov, V. M. (1991). The Aral Sea Basin: A critical environmental zone. Environment, 33 (1), 4–38. Maxwell, A. M. (2002). Educating for peace in the midst of violence: A South African experience. Paper presented at the 19th conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPR A), Suwon, South Korea. Mellor, J. W. (1988, November). The intert wining of environmental problems and povert y. Environment, 30, 8–30. Mische, P. (1991). The Earth as peace teacher.

3 trillion in 1900 to $39 trillion in 1998. The growth in economic output for just three years—from 1995 to 1998—exceeded that in the 10,000 years starting from the beginning of agriculture up to 1900 (Brown & Flavin, 1999). S. $1,500 to $6,600, with most of this increase coming in the second half of the century. More food was produced in the t wentieth century than ever before, and human products poured into the global market place—and into the Earth’s biosphere—at a record rate. In one sense, these aggregate figures represent tremendous human success.

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