Environmental Education, Ethics and Action

This workbook was introduced during a workshop at the 3rd World Environmental Education Congress, held in Turino, Italy in October 2005. During this workshop many people contributed to the development of this edition. Their stories have been incorporated into the text, and their suggestions helped shape the text.

The workbook explores creative ways of working with ethics in education. It includes six different sections:

1. Being Critical: Encourages looking beyond the obvious and to practicing becoming more critical.
2. Self-Validating Reduction: Encourages examination of what happens when the potential of people, communities, places or landscapes is reduced in damaging ways.
3. Complex Questions and Ethical Quandaries: Encourages reflection on what happens when complex ethical questions are not easy to address.
4. Ethics In Action: Encourages exploration of ethics as an everyday activity.
5. Re-imagining Possibilities: Encourages 'thinking outside the box' and creatively re-imagining the future with new possibilities.
6. Ethics Around the World: Encourages thinking about how ethical questions are being discussed in different places and cultures around the world. It allows users to 'add their story' by describing ethical questions in their own community, context, culture and country.

Each section includes stories, learning activities and extension activities. Some of the sections include additional handouts. The book allows for 'working in the book', making this a workbook to get started with environmental education, ethics and action.

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