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Ecological literacy | Assessing learning | New worldviews

Round River is an endless circuit flowing out of condensation, fog, rain, snow, transpiration and evaporation into life.


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"Ecology has been isolated within biology departments as though it had little or nothing to do with the social sciences, the humanities, or the professions. The result is a pervasive anthropocentrism ( human obsessed ) that manifests the roles of humans and their ideas, . . . that assumes nature to be infinite, and human ingenuity to be the ultimate resource."

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David Orr, Ecological Literacy.  pp. 134-135

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There are over 25 groups listed here with links to their web sites. In the contemporary corporate world dominated by international conglomerates that supersede national interests, using commercial power to undermine traditional sovereignty, non-governmental organizations remain the only means by which a public voice can be raised over the distribution of wealth derived form natural resources, polluting technology and human labor.

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I wish I had said that one goal of continuing education is to motivate "the interior lives of young people" whom Andrew Delbanco suggests are "eager for intellectual and aesthetic excitement, learning to examine old ideas in light of new imperatives."

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To me, learning requires as much passion balanced with logic as it does an enduring dedication to correct our errors, revise our biases and reinvent the world to the extent our imaginations grow to appreciate the paradoxes, tragedies, and unexpected discoveries of learning new ideas in old frames.

 

Andrew Delbanco, "Scandals of Higher Education."
The New York Review of Books, March 29, 2007,pp. 42-47. Quoted on p. 46.

Assessing Student Learning

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(1992, p. 147.)   

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Created 03/19/2003, adjusted November 19, 2007. July 28, 2008, & 11-5-11.

Last Updated on August 14, 2014 .

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