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- Title: Visions Lost and Dreams Forgotten: Environmental Education, Systems Thinking, And Possible Futures in American Public Schools (Essay)
- Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 246 KB
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The contributions to this special issue of Teacher Education Quarterly introduce the reader to a powerful analytical framework through which one can reflect upon the meaning and role of environmental education, teacher education and professional development, and salient aspects of the quintessence of the human experience on planet Earth. In a very real sense, the articles herein were brought together so as to provide an interlocking array of intellectual and practical perspectives through which we can better understand our elemental human nature and the various socio-cultural and economic overlays which have served to insulate humanity from that nature and, in the process, from a workable relationship with the world environment to which the fate of the human animal is inexorably bound. These articles also raise very real, compelling, and urgent implications for the practice of teacher education and professional development, classroom instruction in public schools, and how these can lead Western civilization toward a more intelligent and workable relationship with our planetary home. The authors of these articles present a number of insightful observations and thought-provoking ideas that warrant further scrutiny and reflection as the human family confronts some of the most daunting challenges it has ever encountered during its long and arduous sojourn on planet Earth. At the core of all the contributions to this special issue is the compellingly urgent realization that humanity is facing, and must deal with, enormous ecological and social problems and challenges. This situation has created an urgent and compelling need centered on how the future citizenry of the industrialized West will be prepared relative to addressing and dealing with these problems and challenges.