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The best book on sustainability for many years. This book comprises 33 well-written chapters by experts in the areas of education and sustainability. Superbly edited, the collection challenges most of the assumptions of the current educational establishment in a refreshing way. If we are to have a sustainable future we need to rethink what education is and how we set about it. The book is truly a handbook which will inform and inspire anyone who cares about learners and their future. As someone who runs a masters degree in education for sustainable development I make it mandatory reading for all my students. --James Pitt, University of York
There are many things to like about this book, not least that the text focuses on the how, that is, on what we can do, and importantly, is written with a tone of hope. For these reasons, this book offers grounds for optimism and as well as concrete strategies for achieving sustainability. --The Australian Journal of Environment Education
An important collection of essays. . . Although . . . to promote a way of life that is in touch with the Earth demands critical awareness . . . it has to be understood in a much wider and deeper sense. Sustainability Literacy helps us to do just that, and in doing so equips us to confront the unprecedented challenges to come. --Times Higher Education
There are many things to like about this book, not least that the text focuses on the how, that is, on what we can do, and importantly, is written with a tone of hope. For these reasons, this book offers grounds for optimism and as well as concrete strategies for achieving sustainability. --The Australian Journal of Environment Education
An important collection of essays. . . Although . . . to promote a way of life that is in touch with the Earth demands critical awareness . . . it has to be understood in a much wider and deeper sense. Sustainability Literacy helps us to do just that, and in doing so equips us to confront the unprecedented challenges to come. --Times Higher Education
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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 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 in order to reinvent both self and society. The book covers a wide range of skills and attributes from technology appraisal to ecological intelligence, and includes active learning exercises to help develop those skills. Far from being a rigid or definitive statement of the one right way , the handbook is exploratory, aiming to open up new, previously unthought-of paths, possibilities and choices. It is intended primarily for educators across the spectrum from higher education to informal education, but is also suitable for learners and anyone interested in the literally vital issue of the skills necessary for building a more sustainable future. Contributors include Satish Kumar, John Naish, Stephen Sterling, Greg Garrard, Anne Phillips, Kim Polistina, John Blewitt, Stephan Harding and Zoe Robinson.
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An indispensable book for teachers and students of sustainability.,
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This review is from: The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: skills for a changing world (Paperback)
This is an excellent handbook for teachers and students from a wide range of disciplines and for anyone interested in exploring ideas for creating a more sustainable future.The book contains a clear and engaging introduction, which provides an invaluable overview of the key debates surrounding the topic of sustainability. Through active learning exercises such as in the chapters entitled Advertising Awareness and Grounded Economic Awareness, the reader is encouraged to recognise and critically read the social cultural and economic systems that contribute to unsustainable societies. The book argues that the deepest level of sustainable literacy is the psychological level, and several chapters encourage the reader to identify what it is that provides them with a sense of well-being. The book therefore helps to breathe new life into efforts to respond to climate change and peak oil and contribute to a better future. With a wide range of authors from different professional backgrounds and an interesting range of arguments, this is an indispensable book for anyone interested in sustainability.
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Encouraging sustainable thinking,
This review is from: The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: skills for a changing world (Paperback)
It is a handbook of many topics but an interrelated theme that encourages and stimulates sustainable thinking. It will introduce you to a vast range of ideas that dig beneath our current paradigms and help place the environmental debate / dilemma into a socio-economic and philosophical context. This information will inspire and that's always a good place to begin.
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Literacy for a greener future,
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This books sets out to provide readers with 'skills for a changing world', skills that are indeed needed for changing and challenging the world we currently live in. When I first looked through the book (first in cyberspace, then on paper), I was struck by how short the chapters were, something quite uncommon in the academic books that normally land on my desk. Then, when I started to read the chapters, I began to change my preconceptions about 'chapters'. These chapters are short, to the point, and pack a punch, so to speak, singly and as a collective. Overall there are 32 chapters, dealing with topics that range from 'Ecocriticism' to 'A Learning Society'. Not every reader might be interested in all of them, but every reader will find something to get their teeth into. The chapters are pointers that indicate paths to follow in teaching and learning about sustainability from a host of perspectives. Most of all they raise awareness about what can and should be done to make living sustainable, about what we can do and what we can resist doing, personally and as a society. As such the book will be very useful for individual readers but also as a teaching aid across subjects, from communication studies through to systems theory.
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