Ecological Identity Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist
| Author/creator | Thomashow, Mitchell Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 250 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation Mitchell Thomashow, a preeminent educator, shows how environmental studies can betaught from different perspective, one that is deeply informed by personal reflection. Throughtheoretical discussion as well as hands-on participatory learning approaches, Thomashow providesconcerned citizens, teachers, and students with the tools needed to become reflectiveenvironmentalists.What do I know about the place where I live? Where do things come from? How do Iconnect to the earth? What is my purpose as a human being? These are the questions that Thomashowidentifies as being at the heart of environmental education. Developing a profound sense of oneselfin relationship to natural and social ecosystems is necessary grounding for the difficult work ofenvironmental advocacy. In this book he provides a clear and accessible guide to the learningexperiences that accompany the construction of an "ecological identity": using the direct experienceof nature as a framework for personal decisions, professional choices, political action, andspiritual inquiry.Ecological Identity covers the different types of environmental thought andactivism (using John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Rachel Carson as environmental archetypes, butbranching out into ecofeminism and bioregionalism), issues of personal property and consumption,political identity and citizenship, and integrating ecological identity work into environmentalstudies programs. Each chapter has accompanying learning activities such as the Sense of Place Map,a Community Network Map, and the Political Genogram, most of which can be carried out on anindividual basis.Although people from diverse backgrounds become environmental activists and enrollin environmental studies programs, they are rarely encouraged to examine their own history,motivations, and aspirations. Thomashow's approach is to reveal the depth of personal experiencethat underlies contemporary environmentalism and to explore, interpret, and nurture the learningspaces made possible when people are moved to contemplate their experience of nature. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 94036471 |
| ISBN | 9780262700634 |
| ISBN | 0262700638 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262700634 |
| Stock number | 0262700638 00015994 |
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