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Tiêu đề
Environmental literacy and the curriculum: An administrative perspective
Tác giả
Larson C.
Năm xuất bản
2010
Source title
Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum
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0
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Tóm tắt
When I was first invited to join an environmental literacy working group at my university, I feared that as soon as the experts began talking, I would be found out as the ringer in the group-I was not a true, deep, forest green, though perhaps a light shade of chartreuse. My area of research is not a scientific discipline but Hispanic literature. Furthermore, my life outside this institution has precious little to do with sustainability or the interconnectedness of the environment, society, and the economy, although I possess a fair amount of intellectual curiosity and my family does recycle pretty enthusiastically. Still, I wasn't really sure why I had been asked to participate, other than the fact that I was the associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the faculty leaders of the group were most likely making strategic invitations. Because I work with the curriculum on both macro and micro levels on a daily basis, I decided to become involved, and I became a believer in the power of this grassroots effort to change policy and to affect the way we all "do" the business we do. In fact, what I came to understand and embrace was that this concept-helping to create more environmentally literate citizens (students, faculty, staff, and administrators), greening the campus by involving academic programs, the physical operations of the university, and purchasing decisions-really is for everybody. We all coexist on this planet, and we all share the responsibility for determining its future. Pedagogical initiatives involving environmental literacy are intended to educate people, to make them more aware of their individual and collective choices, and literally to change behavior. In what follows, I will explore from an institutional perspective some of the ways in which such an initiative might work at a large, public university. As an associate dean from the liberal arts and sciences, it is fair to say that my perspective emanates from there. I will also consider how such an initiative might be woven into the fabric of academic life of an entire university. © 2010 by Indiana University Press. All Rights Reserved.
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Indiana University Press
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Scopus