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- Title: Contemporary Art, Science, Ecology, And a Critical Pedagogy of Place.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 276 KB
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Introduction Two difficult conditions, with their attendant consequences, define the context of education that would be responsive to ecological concerns. First, human progress emphasizing the domination of nature has devastated many parts of the earth. (1) Modern civilization has created environmental conditions characterized by pollution, depletion of natural resources, climate change, threatened biodiversity, and diminishing wilderness. In the process, modern man has lost a sense of reverence toward the earth. Second, mainstream American education reform has embraced a standards and testing culture that tends to ignore the peculiarities of place, culture, and community in order to standardize the experiences of students. Consequently, local human and natural communities are not usually important parts of the school curriculum. (2) Education that ignores issues of ecology and community becomes complicit in their erosion.