Bioregional Education and the Scholarship of Sustainability

Posted by on August 22, 2011

[posted from K-12 Sustainability listserve]

I am writing to announce the release of my first book entitled Curriculum Studies Gone Wild:  Bioregional Education and the Scholarship of Sustainability (2011, Peter Lang Publishers).  This book would be a valuable text for environmental educators (K-16) or folks who are interested in integrating the principles/theory of sustainability or place-based education into their curriculum & pedagogy.

Synopsis:
This book explores the intersections between curriculum studies and sustainability. Recognizing that a bioregion is our “life place” and that curriculum studies is the interdisciplinary study of lived experience, this book engages in scholarship grounded in advancing ecological stewardship. The educational possibilities of intensifying our ecological attunement are investigated while considering environmental sensitivity and place consciousness. The potentialities of embracing a bioregional eco-curriculum for sustainability within the field of curriculum studies are explored. Curriculum studies is well positioned to respond to the ecological crisis and to contest the contemporary mechanistic form of education by returning to a more organic form of intellectual, spiritual, and ecological scholarship. By emphasizing an ecocurriculum, education can respond to the need to understand and preserve the ecological complexities that help maintain and restore biospheric wellness. This book aims to enable the reader to become better situated to formulate a more inspired, informed, and transformative understanding of the overlap between sustainability and education.

Here is the www.Amazon.com link:
http://www.amazon.com/Curriculum-Studies-Gone-Wild-Sustainability/dp/1433112957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310746650&sr=8-1

I am also looking for folks who would be interested in writing a review for the book.

Thank you,

Nathan Hensley
nateobuf@yahoo.com