Full Description
Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a more sustainable, ecologically secure planet. Cultivating ecological understanding can be more challenging for teachers than simply imparting knowledge of ecological issues; it requires reimagining the human world as part of, not apart from, nature.
Describing the key principles of an approach to teaching called Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE), this book offers a practical guide for all teachers (K-12). It is designed for use with any curriculum to give students opportunities to engage their bodies, emotions, and imaginations in the world around them, thereby making learning meaningful.
Contents
Introduction
1 The Rationale for Imaginative Ecological Education
2 Principles of Imaginative Ecological Education
3 Strategies for Engaging Students' Emotions in Learning - A Study in Weather
4 Strategies for Engaging the Body in Learning - A Study in Weather
5 Place and Sense of Place - Strategies for Connecting Students with the Natural World
6 Using IEE Principles to Support Reading and Writing
7 Site-Specific Tracking and Literacy Activities
8 Developing and Sustaining an IEE Program
Appendix A: Some Guidelines for Mythic and Romantic IEE Planning
Appendix B: Five Steps for Collaboratively Planning IEE Units
Appendix C: Templates for IEE Planning
Notes
References
Index
