Ecology & Our Education System
The current education system has largely pushed ecology into being an ignored portion of study. Are we forgetting that all that we have to learn about ourselves and our world has emerged from the ecology that we are embedded in? How do we infuse this element back into our learning ?
While this entire website is about re-thinking and re-imagining education, this section looks at methods of learning that makes ecological learning a process, going beyond learning of ecology as another academic endeavour.
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Top Ten Benefits of Environmental Education
This list of benefits of environmental education (EE) is compiled by an educator with over thirty years of experience in her field. It is a concise and quick look at how environmental education impacts young minds, the various life skills it imparts to them, and reinforces that EE helps foster community and tolerance.
Environmental Education in India (Concept and Role)
This article discusses the key principles of environment education in simple, layman language. It gives some insight into how our lives are connected with and dependent on the ecology of our environments and therefore the need to redesign curricula to include these relationships. It adresses the need for environmental education to be holistic, to build values, to integrate into the formal system and to be centered on practical problems.
Environmental Education in Schools: The Indian Scenario
This paper gives an overview of the scenario of environment education in schools in India. It is an evaluative study of activity based programmes that focussed on orienting school children to its immediate environment using locale-specific examples and materials....
Head, heart and hands model for transformative learning: Place as context for changing sustainability values
Photo Credit: Rich Lewis By Julia Singleton Abstract: This conceptual article presents the Head, Heart and Hands Model for Transformational Learning. The model was conceptualized from a synthesis of diverse literature, such as sustainable education, transformative...
The High School Where Learning to Farm Is a Graduation Requirement
Founded in 1837 to serve the children of Quaker families, Olney Friends School has always had a farm program and students have been involved in its operation to varying degrees.Photo courtesy of Mark Hibbett By Mary Ann Lieser A group of teens...
Local is Our Future
Helena Norberg-Hodge Poverty, climate change, the erosion of democracy, an epidemic of depression – these and other global crises are symptoms of a far bigger systemic problem. So reports Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness, the new book...
Dreaming the Forest
Laura Rival is enticed to hear the forest’s vast and timeless symphony. Davi Kopenawa, Brazil © Fiona Watson/Survival International Written by a Yanomami shaman and a French anthropologist united by more than 30 years of friendship (as well as a shared passion for...
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest…
Courtesy navdanya.org “Indian civilization has been distinctive in locating its source of regeneration, material and intellectual, in the forest, not the city. India’s best ideas have come where man was in communion with trees and rivers and lakes, away from the...
Celebrating the Forests of India with People who create Forests Every Day!
If like me you have grown up listening to children stories from India, you might remember that forests have always been an essential part of them. May it be the Ramayana, the Mahabharata or the Panchatantra stories, all of them are set extensively in forests. Forests...
Nature and Human Beings are One
In his talk at Bhoomi Network’s Yugaantar Conference, Satish Kumar says that the name Yugaantar is very symbolic of what we are experiencing today; the time is now to look for answers within for all the mess we have created on this bountiful planet. Though I...
