Types of Environmental Education
Vocabulary - Chapter 1
What is Education For?
How do I start using these principles in MY classroom?
Mystery Question...
100
This type of education gives students basic knowledge of ecology, of ecological systems, encourages appreciation of the outdoors, and gives awareness of ecological issues.
What is Environmental Education?
100
1) This branch of environmental education refers to an ecosystem as in interconnected “web of life” in which all the components are affected by a change to any part of the web.
What are the Natural Sciences?
100
What, according to the book, are the historical purposes or goals of schooling?
What are political, social and economic goals?
100
What is where to find great resources including lesson plans to get you started at incorporating ecojustice in your class.
200
This type of education is a branch of environmental education that emphasizes student experience in the outdoors as a path towards becoming more environmentally aware.
What is Experiential/Outdoor Education?
200
2) This growing scholarly field includes the “careful study of the theoretical positions, political and economic adjustments, behavioral and institutional alterations, pedagogical mobilizations, and forms of spirituality that will or should emerge in response to increasing ecological damage of both a physical and psychic nature/
What is EcoPedagogy?
200
What will the books approach advocate for teachers?
What is how to interrupt unsustainable and unjust ways of living, often too often reproduced in schools?
200
Helps you review and begin to internalize and use some of the primary concepts that will shift the way you think about the world around you.
What is the book's Conceptual Toolbox?
300
This type of education is defined as “the process of using the local community and environment as a starting point to teach concepts” in many subjects across the curriculum.
What is Place Based Education?
300
3) This environmental education concept allows a person to estimate his or her individual impact on the environment.
What is ecological footprint?
300
What do schools currently help to reproduce?
What is a culture and economic system whose short-term profit motive and ideology of unlimited growth have created a society that dangerously overshoots the carrying capacity of the bio-systems depended upon for life?
300
A website quoted as a resource that has worked for over forty-five years to conserve and protect nature.
What is World Wildlife Fund?
400
This type of education is concerned with “nurturing healthy, whole, curious persons who can learn whatever they need to know in any new context.”
What is Holistic Education?
400
4) This approach to teaching is best suited for teaching EcoJustice. This approach first asks the question “what are my just and ethical obligations to my communities?”
What is the Pedagogy of Responsibility?
400
How can you incorporate eco-justice principals in your practice?
What is ....the answers are numerous!!
400
A panel assembled by the UN to assess global climate change.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
500
This type of education involves an approach that focuses on the cruel treatment of animals in modern society, which, it argues, stems from “speciesism,” or discrimination by humans against other species.
What is Critical Animal Studies?
500
5) The understanding that both ecological and social crises have intertwined cultural roots in the deep assumptions of modernity.
What is Cultural Ecological Analysis?
500
The understanding that local and global ecosystems are essential to all life; challenging the deep cultural assumptions underlying modern thinking that undermine those systems; and the recognition of the need to restore the cultural and environmental commons.
What is Ecojustice Education?
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