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Ecological literacy | Assessing learning | New worldviews
River is an endless circuit flowing out of condensation, fog, rain, snow, transpiration and evaporation into life.
What is here?
Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River divides Zimbabwe and Zambia, in southern Africa.
Ways of seeing . symbiotically
Hawking in a nutshell
Guide to Political News & facts on the world wide web
BBC World News.
Non Governmental Organizations
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Critical thinking competency in ecological practices.
Ecology has been isolated within biology departments as though it had little or nothing to do with the social sciences, the humanities, or the professions. The result is a pervasive anthropocentrism ( ) that manifests the roles of humans and their ideas, . . . that assumes human obsessed nature to be infinite, and human ingenuity to be the ultimate resource."
Crucial concepts in ecological science, history and ideas are to remember, understand, and apply:
know your earth
Walden " A model of the possible unity" among " personhood, pedagogy, and place."
Natural capital | Accounting for natural assets | Worth of ecosystem services
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The right triangle has analogous qualities to a style in a sun dial that casts a shadow. While one instrument indicates a measure of space, the other indicates the passage of duration, as a measure of time.
Perpendicularity a quality of having a direction or position completely vertical to an adjacent plane.
Class related links to use in papers .
American Academy. for the Advancement of Science, AAAS: Atlas
Museum of Natural History (New York) Boston Athenaeum
Reliable internet sites .
Museums on the web.
Public Broadcasting Service–Investigative News.
, National Public Radio NPR.
the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA.
Government on the web.
Geological Survey, USGS.
Office: Hadley Climate Centre in U.K.
of California, Library.
of Texas, Library.
York Public Library.
Olin Library indexes.
topics portal for the web.
Resources Institute, WRI.
Media Services, EMS, daily news.
The Thoreau Reader web site
Census Bureau (decennial census data)
White paper ( ) example
Press a small sampling.
North American & national press.
Environmental links: topical matters
, NGOs non-governmental organizations:
There are over 25 groups listed here with links to their web sites. In the contemporary corporate world dominated by international conglomerates that supersede national interests, using commercial power to undermine traditional sovereignty,
remain the only means by which a public voice can be raised over the distribution of wealth derived form natural resources, polluting technology and human labor. non-governmental organizations
or Overseas, Foreign
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I wish I had said that one goal of continuing education is to motivate " the interior lives of young people" whom Andrew Delbanco suggests are " eager for intellectual and aesthetic excitement, " learning to examine old ideas in light of new imperatives.
To me, learning requires as much passion balanced with logic as it does an enduring dedication to correct our errors, revise our biases and reinvent the world to the extent our imaginations grow to appreciate the paradoxes, tragedies, and unexpected discoveries of learning new ideas in old frames.
Andrew Delbanco, "Scandals of Higher Education." The New York Review of Books, March 29, 2007,pp. 42-47. Quoted on p. 46.
Assessing Student Learning
Descriptions of each assessment tool, their pros and cons, and information on how to create each tool can be found in the documents below.
Embedded Exam/Quiz Assessment
argues that a basic college education David Orr
"involving the integration of analytic intelligence...."
is needed for environmental studies and science.
(1992, p. 147.)
Authors to use in your writing & a partial bibliographic listing of authorities used, quoted, and sited with links on this web site.
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