Developing eco-consciousness:  A critical exploration of the Ontario grade 12 "Environment and Resource Management" course.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780494210802
Subjects: Environmental education -- Ontario.; Environmental protection -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Ontario.; High school students -- Ontario -- Attitudes.
Description: This study examines a Grade 12 course: The Environment and Resource Management; the sole environmental studies course offered in Ontario at the secondary level. It involves analysis of the formal Ontario curriculum and critical ethnographic research in one urban, multicultural secondary grade 12 class in the Toronto area. The paper is presented through a theoretical framework of eco-pedagogy and eco-literacy and explores how teachers and students reflect and re-construct mainstream environmental discourses and representations of nature as they negotiate through the curriculum, particularly with respect to the development of an eco-consciousness. This analysis is based upon the competencies outlined by the Centre for Eco-literacy (2006); which states that to create a citizenry able to design and maintain sustainable societies one must cultivate competencies of the head, heart, hand and spirit. This thesis concludes with a series of recommendations for creation of an environment conducive to the development of eco-consciousness.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1165.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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