A Schooling for Sustainability Framework (Essay)
By Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date: 2010-09-22
- Genre: Education
Description
One hardly needs to catalog the challenges that constitute the ecological crisis that is the theme of this issue of Teacher Education Quarterly. The encouraging news is the evidence that there are schools across North America and around the world responding to these challenges. They are discovering that guidance for living abundantly on a finite planet lies, literally, under their feet and all around them--in living soil, food webs, and water cycles, energy from the sun, and everywhere that nature reveals her ways. They are drawing on 3.8 billion years of natural research and development to find solutions to problems of sustainable living, make teaching and learning more meaningful, and create a more hopeful future for people and communities. David W. Orr of Oberlin College describes the task facing educators:
