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Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences
Wendy Petersen Boring (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Boring, Wendy Petersen; Forbes, William. Num Pages: 286 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JN; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 458.
The essays in this volume represent grassroots restoration work in higher education for sustainability. Over the last five years, faculty in the humanities and social sciences at a wide range of institutions across North America have individually and together begun to do what David Orr called for in the 1990s in Earth in Mind. They have gone back to their respective disciplines and, with intellectual agility, courage, and a sense of adventure and responsibility, begun to rethink old assumptions, ask the big questions, and readjust their own narratives about what it means to educate, to learn, and to know - ... Read more
The essays in this volume represent grassroots restoration work in higher education for sustainability. Over the last five years, faculty in the humanities and social sciences at a wide range of institutions across North America have individually and together begun to do what David Orr called for in the 1990s in Earth in Mind. They have gone back to their respective disciplines and, with intellectual agility, courage, and a sense of adventure and responsibility, begun to rethink old assumptions, ask the big questions, and readjust their own narratives about what it means to educate, to learn, and to know - ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781622880614
SKU
V9781622880614
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About Wendy Petersen Boring (Ed.)
Wendy Petersen Boring, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, USA, where she teaches pre-modern European history, women and gender studies, and sustainability studies. She served as Chair of Willamette’s Sustainability Council for three years and currently teaches food systems and ethics at Willamette’s Zena Farm Summer Institute in Sustainable Agriculture. She has presented ... Read more
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