Greening the college curriculum
Subtitle: a guide to environmental teaching in the liberal arts : a project of the Rainforest Alliance
By: edited by Jonathan Collett and Stephen Karakashian.
Contributors: Collett, Jonathan.; Karakashian, Stephen.; Rainforest Alliance.
Publisher: Island Press; Brand: Island Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Education, Humanistic -- United States -- Curricula; Environmental education -- United States -- Curricula; Education, Higher -- United States -- Curricula
Description: Product Description: Greening the College Curriculum provides 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.