Welcome to EOE 224

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Welcome to EOE 224
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Agenda for today

• Touching on Last Child in the Woods
• Suzuki Speaks

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Education Emerging Philosophy

• Gifts of Nature
• Something else was different when we were young
  our parents were outdoors. Im not saying they
  were joining health clubs and things of that
  sort, but they were out of the house, out on the
  porch, talking to neighbours. As far as physical
  fitness goes, todays kids are the sorriest
  generation in the history of the United States
  (Canada). Their parents may be out jogging, but
  the kids just arent outside.
• Louv, Richard (2006) Last Child in the Woods
  Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
  Toronto, Ontario Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
  (p. 11)

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Education Emerging Philosophy

• The Third Frontier
• In the space of a century, the American
  experience of nature has gone from direct
  utilitarianism to romantic attachment to
  electronic detachment. Americans have passed not
  through on frontier, but through three the third
  frontier the one that young people are growing
  up in today is every bit as much a venture into
  the unknown as Daniel Beard experienced in his
  time. (p.16)
• Louv, Richard (2006) Last Child in the Woods
  Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
  Toronto, Ontario Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
  (p. 11)

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Education Emerging Philosophy
Suzuki Speaks what information did it convey?
In a group discuss the data you personally
collected and develop a summary . . . Be
prepared to share.
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Integrality
Ownership
Traditional
Process
Experiential Multi-sensory Unique learning
environments Interdisciplinarity Spiritual
Groupness
Trust
Risk
Responsibility
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Environmental Education. Population Education.
Development Education, Energy Education HIV/AIDS
Education. Permaculture Education, Citizenship
Education, Democracy Education. Consumer
Education Media Education, Outdoor Education,
Experiential Education, Workplace Education,
Conservation Education, Anti-Racist Education,
Religious Education, Equity Education, Gender
Education, Holocaust Education Entrepreneurship
Education, Horticulture Education, Water
Education Global Education Drug Education. Sex
Education. International Studies. Family Studies.
Human Rights Education, Women's Studies, Native
Studies, Values Education. Natural History
Education, Vocational Education, Economic
Education, Anti-smoking Education, Conflict
Resolution Education. Workplace education
Disaster Prevention Education, Computer Studies,
Life-Skills Education, Recycling Education,
Civics Education, Heritage Education, Community
Studies, Multicultural Education, Anti-Violence
Education, Systems Thinking Education, Futures
Education, Biodiversity Education, Pioneer
Studies, Nutrition Education, Resource Management
Education, Self-Image Education, Peace Education,
Leadership Education, Cooperative Education,
Character Education, Sexual Orientation
Education (80 plus) We are not creating
Sustainability Education as 81
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Given the uncertainty, sustainable has become
the new organic an important if unclear label
subject to hype, misrepresentation and
opportunism
Sustainability is the possibility that human and
other forms of life on earth will flourish
forever. John Ehrenfeld, Professor Emeritus, MIT
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Heightening ones awareness to
The importance of re-orienting teaching and
learning to address social and ecological
justice Understanding the concept of integrality
in relationship to education The significance of
redefining the place of education in our society
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Caveat At present there are differences of
opinion for all peoples do not agree as to the
things that the young ought to learn, either with
a view to virtue or with a view to the best life,
nor is it clear whether their studies should be
regulated more with regard to intellect or with
regard to character. (Aristotle - 384-322 BCE)
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Engaging all formal, non-formal and even informal
education, public awareness, and training
programs at all levels to learn and to educate
our way out of what currently appears as an
unsustainable future (Hopkins, 2008)
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. . . The crisis of sustainability, the fit
between humanity and its habitat, is manifest in
varying ways and degrees everywhere on earth. It
is not only a permanent feature on the public
agenda for all practical purposes it is the
agenda. (Orr, 1992)
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Outdoor Education Site Inventory 20 Value

• You will complete a site inventory of a learning
  classroom. Using a journal and other technologies
  available to you, collect information about
• the learning classroom
• the resource materials available in the learning
  classroom
• the physical nature of the learning classroom
  and,
• the interdisciplinary and experiential nature of
  the learning classroom.
• Referring to lectures, textbook readings and the
  information you collected at your learning
  classroom site develop an emerging philosophic
  orientation that explains how your learning
  classroom can facilitate learning for children.
  Use the rubric descriptors to assist you in your
  work. Supplementary information about this
  expectation will be provided in class.

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• Expectation Date
• Outdoor Education Site Inventory October 09
• Developmental Learning Experience November 13
• Mid-term Period Review October 30
• Final Period Review (Handed in) December 04

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Cathedral Experience Site-inventory Please meet
at the Safeway parking lot 2931 13th Ave.
Regina, SK. Thursday September 18 at 100 pm Be
prepared for the weather and bring something to
record your thoughts
Interdisciplinarity Experiential Unique learning
environments Multi-sensory Spirituality
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