ERIC Number: ED458371
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2000
Pages: 106
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ISBN: ISBN-0-919971-35-0
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The Nature of Transformation: Environmental Adult Education. Second Edition.
Clover, Darlene E.; Follen, Shirley; Hall, Budd
This document, which is intended to assist environmental, health, and community-based educators in Canada and elsewhere, discusses the process of drawing upon the theories and methodologies of transformative learning to plan adult environmental education workshops emphasizing the theme of socio-environmental change. The following are among the topics examined in chapters 1-6: (1) educational theories and principles (adult education as a process of creating new knowledge from the past, personal growth, and social transformation; popular education; feminist education; environmental education; indigenous education; and key principles of environmental adult education); (2) making environmental workshops work (planning and preparation; understanding the importance of context; creating an ecologically focused agenda; facilitating the learning process; and team building); (3) cultivating knowledge and action through practice (introductory activities; reconnecting activities); (4) learning through historical routes; learning through natural and community designs; and moving from words to action; (5) practices from Australia, Canada, Fiji, Hong Kong, and the Philippines; (6) dealing with resistance and fear, learning from experience, keeping on track, and following nature's lead; and (7) available resource organizations and publications. Sample agendas from workshops presented in two cities in Ontario and two cities in British Columbia are appended. (MN)
Descriptors: Activism, Adjustment (to Environment), Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Change Agents, Community Education, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Holistic Approach, Indigenous Populations, Individual Development, Instructional Development, Learning Activities, Learning Theories, Popular Education, Postsecondary Education, Program Evaluation, Resource Materials, Self Actualization, Social Change, Student Empowerment, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Teamwork, Theory Practice Relationship, Transformative Learning, Womens Education, Workshops
York University Bookstore, York Lanes, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 ($20). Tel: 416-736-5024.
Publication Type: Books; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; Canada; Fiji; Hong Kong; Philippines
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