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Greening the College Curriculumprovides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature, journalism, philosophy, political science, and religion, describe their experience introducing environmental issues into their teaching.The book provides: a rationale for including material on the environment in the teaching of the basic concepts of each discipline guidelines for constructing a unit or a full course at the introductory level that makes use of environmental subjects sample plans for upper-level courses a compendium of annotated resources, both print and nonprint Contributors to the volume include David Orr, David G. Campbell, Lisa Naughton, Emily Young, John Opie, Holmes Rolston III, Michael E. Kraft, Steven Rockefeller, and others.
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Intending to foster the mainstreaming of teaching about the environment in higher education, this effective and unique curriculum guide demonstrates connections between environmental education and many academic disciplines. The editors and contributors find urgent the need for "environmental literacy" and have designed this guide with separate chapters presenting environmental educational opportunities, techniques, course objectives, class projects, and teaching strategies for the disciplines of anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature, media and journalism, philosophy, political science, and religion. Despite this chapter format, the editors promote interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching, perhaps most effectively by frequent insertion of cross-references to other chapters where similar topics are treated from a different perspective. Each disciplinary chapter includes four elements: a rationale for including material on the environment in teaching the basic concepts of the discipline; curricular guidelines for introductory units or full courses using environmental components; course plans for upper-division courses; and an annotated list of selected resources. Contributors have had experience in teaching and publishing and include such well-known environmental educators as Karl Grossman, John Opie, David Orr, Steven Rockefeller, and Holmes Rolston. This guide provides diverse areas of curricular focus and multifaceted teaching techniques, including the role of zoos, uses of computer Geographic Information Systems, interfaith dialogue, etc. Essential to support environmental studies programs; should be acquired by all academic libraries, community colleges to research institutions. J. A. Adams SUNY at Buffalo
