{"product_id":"teaching-sustainability-wendy-petersen-boring-9781622880614","title":"Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Foreword by David Orr: \". . . T]he authors here describe a curriculum of applied hope. No discipline is exempt from the effort to extend awareness of our implicatedness in the world, and from the effort to create a better future than that in prospect. As scholars and teachers, they are responding to the intellectual and moral imperatives of \"the long emergency.\". . . The overwhelming fact of our time is that life on Earth is in peril, humans are the cause, and that no amount of tinkering at the margin of the \u003ci\u003estatus quo\u003c\/i\u003e will do. We have every reason to reexamine our beliefs, worldviews, institutions, cultural foundations, and manner of living - and get down to work.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSustainability education is increasingly taking a lead role in transforming the landscape of higher education, serving as a catalyst for the integration of cutting edge pedagogical practices, including project and problem-based learning, multidisciplinary learning, and transformative and collaborative education. This book documents innovative pedagogical approaches to infusing sustainability into the curriculum in the humanities and social sciences on college campuses ranging from small liberal arts colleges to major research institutions. Three sections include: 1) Conceptual Frameworks: Sustainability's Challenges to Traditional Curriculum, Disciplinary Frameworks, and Educational Paradigms; 2) In the Classroom: Case Studies and Innovative Pedagogies; 3) The Campus as Site for Place-Based Learning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeil Weissman, Provost and Professor of History at Dickinson College, writes: \"The essays in this collection are richly diverse. . . .Like sustainability itself, the volume infuses theory with practical application. The contributors demonstrate the ways in which a single course can serve as a powerful change agent for an entire campus, how to build bridges between faculty and administrators, and even how to move forward on modest budgets.\u003ci\u003e Teaching Sustainability\u003c\/i\u003e provides a valuable conceptual and practical toolbox for faculty, students, and administrators to (as David Orr notes in the foreword) 'get down to work.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Petersen-Boring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1622880617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781622880614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen F. Austin University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.60d","brand":"Wendy Petersen-Boring","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067852452095,"sku":"9781622880614","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35c604d3-c531-48c5-96cc-be509befe0bb.jpg?v=1685415702","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/teaching-sustainability-wendy-petersen-boring-9781622880614","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}