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Module 10: ECOLITERACY

Ways to Develop Ecoliteracy

in Schools

Ecoliteracy and Sustainable Development

Ecologically Literate Person

and Society

Ecoliteracy and Sustainable Development

Ecoliteracy considers ecological systems and awareness of how society operates within natural aspects as an educational imperative.

Wahl (2017)

- claimed that nurturing ecological literacy in students of a wide range of ages has become the goal of sustainability.

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David Orr (1992)

- students are taught that ecology is unimportant.

Orr & Capra (1990)

- coined the idea of ‘ecological literacy’ as creating a new emphasis on the need for education to integrate understanding of the interdependence between natural processes and human ways of life.

First Step

- Ecological literacy is understanding of the principles of organization that ecosystems have evolved to sustain the web of life.

Second Step

- Is the move forwards ecodesign.

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Sustainability

- is a qualitative and quantitative condition that demonstrates the human capasity to survive over time.

Ecological Literacy

- provides the basis for integrated thinking about sustainability.

How to achieve sustainability?

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- Ecological literacy aims to replace fragmented thinking with new cognitive and social capacities necessary for the design of sustainable ways of living.

Wahl (2017)

- an ecologically literate person can apply such understanding to the design and organization of communities and the creation of a regenerative culture.

Ecologically Literate Person

- an ecologically literate person understands the essence of independence and interconnectedness and that we are all part of a living system.

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Ecologically Literate Society

- an ecologically literate society would be a sustainable society, which does not destroy the natural environment on which they depend.

Wahl (2017) claimed that nurturing ecological literacy in students of awide range of ages has become the goal of sustainability education programs worldwide.

- the goal is to raise students with an important perspective called "socially and emotionally engaged ecoliteracy".

- ecoliteracy is founded on a new integration of emotional, social and ecological forms of intelligence.

- ecoliteracy builds on success from reduced behavioral problems to increased academic achievement to foster social and emotional learning.

1. Develop empathy for all forms of life.

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2. Embrace sustainability as a community practice.

3. Make the invisible visible.

4. Anticipate unintended consequences.

5. Understand how nature sustains life.

Three crucial tenets to ecoliterate living:

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1. ecoliterate people learn from nature that all living organisms are complex and interconnected that inhabit a particular place for survival.

2. ecoliterate people tend to be more aware that systems exist on various levels of scale.

3. ecoliterate people collectively practice a way of life that fulfills the needs of the present generation while simultaneously supporting nature's inherentability to sustain life in the future.

Basic Environmental Principles of Ecosystem (adapted from Barry Connmoner;cited in Butler, 2012)

1. Nature knows best.

2. All forms of life are important.

Seven Environmental Principles of Nature

3. Everything is connected to everything else.

4. Everything changes.

5. Everything must go somewhere.

6. Ours is a finite earth.

7. Nature is beautiful and we are stewards of God's creation.

Towards a Green School and Education for Sustainable Development

- The school environment, therefore, should encourage, support and nurture students' capacities on green environment as integrated in the curriculum and instruction.

- The school environment, therefore, should encourage, support and nurture students' capacities on green environment as integrated in the curriculum and instruction.

- Environmental issues and concerns can be effectively addressed when all efforts of staff and studentsare geared toward adopting environmentally sustainable principles at all levels.

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