The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy (eBook, PDF)

Skills for a Changing World
Redaktion: Stibbe, Arran

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A vital resource for sustainability educators, learners and decision-makers on how we can build a more sustainable future.

In this ground-breaking book, leading sustainability educators are joined by permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers in a deep reflection on the skills that people need to survive and thrive in the challenging conditions of the 21st century.

Responding to the threats of climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, economic uncertainty and energy insecurity demands the utmost in creativity, ingenuity and new ways of thinking to reinvent self and society. Among the many skills, attributes and values described in The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy are values reflection, coping with complexity, permaculture design, transition skills, advertising awareness, effortless action, and ecological intelligence, each accompanied by ideas for active learning exercises to help develop the skill.

Far from being a rigid or definitive statement of the one right way however, the handbook is exploratory, aiming to open up new, unthought-of paths, possibilities and choices. With contributors including John Naish, Satish Kumar, Patrick Whitefield, John Blewitt, Stephan Harding and Stephen Sterling, this is intended for educators, learners and anyone else interested in the vital issue of the skills we need to survive and thrive in the 21st century and build a more sustainable future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781907448645
• Artikelnr.: 38365310

Autorenporträt

Arran Stibbe has an academic background in both humanities and human ecology, and combines the two in his teaching and research into Education for Sustainability. He lectures in the Humanities Department at the University of Gloucestershire, is a National Teaching Fellow, and a fellow of the Centre for Active Learning. He has published widely in the area of ecolinguistics and is convenor of the Sustainability in Higher Education Developers group (SHED Share), a network of 200 sustainability educators from across the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction by Arran Stibbe and Heather Luna. Part 1
Skills for a Changing World Ecocriticism: the ability to investigate
cultural artefacts from an ecological perspective by Greg Garrard
Optimisation: the art of personal sufficiency by John Naish Grounded
Economic Awareness: economic awareness based on ecological and ethical
values by Satish Kumar Advertising Awareness: the ability to expose
advertising discourses that undermine sustainability, and resist them by
Arran Stibbe Transition Skills: skills for transition to a post-fossil-fuel
age by Stephen Quilley Commons Thinking: the ability to envisage and enable
a viable future through connected action by Justin Kenrick Effortless
Action: the ability to fulfil human needs effortlessly through working with
nature by Ling Feng Permaculture Design: designing our lives with nature as
the model by Patrick Whitefield Community Gardening: skills for building
community and working within environmental limits by Alma Clavin Ecological
Intelligence: viewing the world relationally by Stephen Sterling Systems
Thinking: the ability to recognise and analyse the interconnections within
and between systems by Glenn Strachan Gaia Awareness: awareness of the
animate qualities of the Earth by Stephan Harding Futures Thinking: the
ability to envision scenarios of a more desirable future by Sue Wayman
Values Reflection and the Earth Charter: the ability to critique the values
of an unsustainable society and consider alternatives by Jeffrey Newman
Social Conscience: the ability to reflect on deeply held opinions about
social justice and sustainability by Myshele Goldberg New Media Literacy:
communication skills for sustainability by John Blewitt Cultural Literacy:
understanding and respect for the cultural aspects of sustainability by Kim
Polistina Carbon Capability: understanding climate change and reducing
emissions by Lorraine Whitmarsh, Saffron ONeill, Gill Seyfang and Irene
Lorenzoni Greening Business: the ability to drive environmental and
sustainability improvements in the workplace by Zoe Robinson Materials
Awareness: the ability to expose the hidden impact of materials on
sustainability by Melinda Watson Appropriate Technology and Appropriate
Design: the ability to design systems, technologies and equipment in an
appropriate way by Mike Clifford Technology Appraisal: the ability to
evaluate technological innovation by Gavin Harper Complexity, Systems
Thinking and Practice: skills and techniques for managing complex systems
by Dick Morris and Stephen Martin Coping with Complexity: the ability to
manage complex sustainability problems by Bland Tomkinson Emotional
Well-being: the ability to research and reflect on the roots of emotional
well-being by Morgan Phillips Finding Meaning without Consuming: the
ability to experience meaning, purpose and satisfaction through
non-material wealth by Paul Maiteny Being-in-the-World: the ability the
think about the self in interconnection and interdependence with the
surrounding world by John Danvers Beauty as a Way of Knowing: the
redemption of knowing through the experience of beauty by Barry Bignell
Part 2 Educational Transformation for Sustainability Literacy Citizen
Engagement by Geoff Fagan Re-educating the Person by Karen Blincoe
Institutional Transformation by Anne Phillips A Learning Society by Kate
Davies