Environmental Education

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This paper reviews various literary works on the subject of environmental education and social attitudes towards our earth. The paper discusses these briefly, providing an overview of each.

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"All of these examples - and many more - provide healing for the earth, for the community and for the person engaged in the environmental activity. The concept of healing the earth in a global sense is not wildly out of reach, when one realizes that putting fewer greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (something everyone can help with) has a global impact."
"And all healing activities have a psychological impact, as well as a practical and healing impact. Thomashow writes (142) that "surprisingly few environmental practitioners" consider the "psychospiritual ramifications" of internalizing "global environmental change"; but in fact this dynamic is "crucial to ecological identity work," he explains. The reason these practitioners do not give consideration to the "psychospiritual" aspect of their work is that they are "busy attending to the practical work" of advocating for ecological reform, promoting "a worldview," or just getting the word out that certain social behaviors are good for the earth, and others are most certainly bad for the earth."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Basile, Carole; White, Cameron; & Robinson, Stacey. (2000). Awareness to Citizenship:Environmental Literacy for the Elementary Child. Lanham, Maryland: University Press ofAmerica, Inc.
• Bowers, C. A. (1995). Educating For An Ecologically Sustainable Culture: Rethinking Moral Education, Creativity, Intelligence, and Other Modern Orthodoxies. Albany, NY: StateUniversity of New York Press.
• Heimlich, Joe E. (2002). Environmental Education: A Resource Handbook. Bloomington, Indiana: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
• Johnson, Edward; & Mappin, Michael. (2005). Environmental Education and Advocacy: Changing Perspectives of Ecology and Education. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Thomashow, Mitchell. (1995). Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

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