Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, and the Environment - Softcover

“Ecological Education in Action vividly evokes the connections between place-based learning and the stories, resources, and needs of communities. Though the chapters here vary widely among the regions they describe and the educational programs they discuss, they return over and over to two central emphases: the value of traditional and localized knowledge in fostering deeper personal identification with a landscape, and the essential connection between ecological sustainability and activism on behalf of social justice. This is one of the most distinctive, useful, and inspiring books I know in the burgeoning field of environmental education.” ― John Elder, Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Middlebury College

“I love it when a book translates ideas I have been kicking around in my mind into articulate, lucid prose. Ecological Education in Action provided that alchemical experience for me. Within a week of reading most of the chapters, I was recommending them to my colleagues and friends. These stories, by some of America’s most committed educational practitioners, did the trick. They quenched my thirst for place immersion and they slowly unfolded solutions to the problem of how to make environmental education the warp of the school fabric rather than just tassels attached to the edge. The diverse perspectives, from ecofeminism to indigenous people’s education, helped me to understand the broad spectrum of ecological education in all its manifestations. This is a book of trail markers that show you the path to the destination of ecologically inspired K-12 education.” ― David Sobel, Director, Teacher Certification Programs, Education Department, Antioch New England Graduate School