tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post116580424359740526..comments2024-01-04T05:57:26.735-06:00Comments on Education Policy Blog: Hosted by the Forum on the Future of Public Education: Rethinking American EducationCraig A. Cunninghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18160288758906798678noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-1165957811734234802006-12-12T15:10:00.000-06:002006-12-12T15:10:00.000-06:00Thanks, Dan. I agree Rebecca's work is a great sta...Thanks, Dan. I agree Rebecca's work is a great start, just as is the work of Chet Bowers. Our struggle to reconceptualize our relationship to nature and Earth reminds me of our struggles with multiculturalism and cultural studies. We added many courses and programs to address multiculturalism but the politics often resulted in 'add-on' effects. That's where it seems to me we are when I consider the topic list for redesigning american ed. Even ecopedagogy seems harnessed to a view of humanism that is still one-step removed from an intimate relationship with nature. I do thank you for the response and the work at hand.Mary Ann Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561774385313551066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-1165946702857502342006-12-12T12:05:00.000-06:002006-12-12T12:05:00.000-06:00Mary Ann, You might be interested in "Ecojustice E...Mary Ann, <BR/><BR/>You might be interested in "Ecojustice Education" (http://www.ecojusticeeducation.org/). Rebecca Martusewicz is one of the main driving forces behind this and she is a professor of social foundations at Eastern Michigan University. She has written a lot about such a perspective and her work might be relevant to thinking through how to link education with our greater world.<BR/><BR/>DanDan W. Butinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08543447769350980289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-1165946104690249512006-12-12T11:55:00.000-06:002006-12-12T11:55:00.000-06:00Please seriously consider deepening our understand...Please seriously consider deepening our understanding of ed foundations at this particular moment in history with a conception of its roots in nature, not just environmental education. We need to stop turning our thinking about education as deep ecology over to science departments and science educators who are willing to think about the implications of cosmology for education as a side show. We are at the end of the creation stories era; Please incorporate the work of Thomas Berry into these conversations about ed foundations now. Let's not wait another thirty years. Social includes nature; we are in relationship with Earth, Solar system, universe, cosmos. Jump this gap and let's get started redesigning american education in collaboration with evolution, since we've taken over the controls, sadly, of this planet.<BR/><BR/>My two cents.<BR/>MaryAnn DoyleMary Ann Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561774385313551066noreply@blogger.com