Does education for sustainability encourage Leopold's "Intense Consciousness of Land"?
- Authors: Kentish, Barry , Robottom, Ian
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Canadian Journal of Environmental Education Vol. 13, no. 1 (2008), p. 73-88
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- Description: C1
- Description: 2003006287
Food gardens : Cultivating a pedagogy of place
- Authors: Green, Monica
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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- Description: Place-based education attempts to position the individual in relationship with the human and non-human elements of the life-world, at a place that is welcoming of educational experience and a knowledge base from which to construct a more ecologically sustainable culture. Food gardens, along with ecological restoration projects within schools are experiencing a significant renaissance and are important sites for place-based education. Many of these places are located in and around the immediate environment of a school ground and become significant educational portals through which children explore their world. This paper reports on the literature reviewed for a study on how a pedagogy of place is cultivated within garden experiences. There is limited research about the use of school gardens as an educational tool and the specific pedagogies that support learning in this context. A number of themes emerge from various bodies of literature that provide a conceptual framework for the study of food garden pedagogies. These themes include placebased education, ecological literary, and nature as teacher. It is useful to think about primary school gardens in the light of this literature because it helps frame a research question for a study into how pedagogies of place can be cultivated within food gardens. [Author abstract, ed]
Community-based sustainability : Conservation in the Ballarat region
- Authors: Kentish, Barry , Robottom, Ian
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Environmental Education Vol. 22, no. 2 (2006), p. 33-43
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- Description: Abstract: The discourse of sustainability is promoted internationally, with the United Nations declaring 2005-2014 as a Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. There is discussion concerning the nature, status and significance of Education for Sustainability and its relationship with the somewhat established discourse of environmental education. This debate requires continuing theorising and one approach is to reflect critically on specific examples of sustainability within specific communities. This article seeks to promote further discussion about sustainability, and to contribute to ongoing theorisation about Education for Sustainability, by considering a particular instance - that of environmental sustainability in the Ballarat region of Victoria. The case study suggests that implementation of this local environmental sustainability strategy was dominated by technocratic and individualistic ideologies.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001641
Educating for sustainability : An innovative interactive CD and internet resource
- Authors: Kentish, Barry , Darby, Linda
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Teaching Science Vol. 51, no. 3 (2005), p. 30-33
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- Description: There is concern that interest in environmental issues is declingin, particularly among young people.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001094