La formación de educadoras y educadores ambientales:


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La formación de educadoras y educadores ambientales en la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM), ha sido uno de los objetivos primordiales a los que se ha orientado esta institución desde los primeros momentos de su creación. En su seno, oferta el programa académico de la maestría en Educación Ambiental, el cual busca concretar nuevas respuestas educativas a los problemas ambientales que se viven en los diferentes puntos del país, y de manera particular, en la Ciudad de México, a fin de revelar otros futuros posibles para todos, donde el respeto por la condición humana y la protección del medio ambiente sean dos aspectos inseparables. En este marco, el programa de la maestría en Educación Ambiental hace un alto en el camino para tratar de averiguar cuáles han sido algunos de los senderos que ha transitado en su objetivo ineludible de formar educadores ambientales; indaga sobre los conocimientos, habilidades y destrezas adquiridas por los estudiantes y busca comprender cómo se han materializado en prácticas pedagógicas concretas, al tiempo que pretende reflexionar sobre la forma en que sus egresados se asumen como educadores ambientales y muestra algunas las perspectivas de futuro que le otorgan a la educación ambiental en los años por venir. Así, los escritos que integran este volumen muestran distintas miradas al trabajo profesional de los egresados, donde se sitúan algunos análisis y reflexiones en torno a los hallazgos y propuestas, producto de la visión particular de cada uno de sus autores, esto con la intención de compartir un primer acercamiento al campo de la educación ambiental, y de manera concreta, una perspectiva de análisis sobre el quehacer educativo-ambiental de los egresados de este programa académico.




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Engaging People in Sustainability


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The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].







Yearbook of International Organizations


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Edition for 1983/84- published in 3 vols.: vol. 1, Organization descriptions and index; vol. 2, International organization participation; vol. 3, Global action networks; edition for 2012/2013- published in 5 vols: vol. 4, International organization bibliography and resources; vol. 4, Statistics, visualizations & patterns.




The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)


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“The hope for the future depends on teaching current and future students the analytical and critical thinking skills for dealing with the most critical problems. My own hope is for this book to be read by everyone, even those outside the field of environmental education. Read this book, read it again, share it widely, and do something - anything - to help our needy and wounded planet."-Marc Bekoff, author of The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons For Expanding Our Compassion Footprint "Saylan and Blumstein provide a compelling vision of what can be, and what should be, if we have the courage to open our eyes and the boldness to act.”-Peter Saundry, Ph.D., Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment “A clarion call to incorporate environmental education in all grades K-12, across all academic disciplines, in order to produce future generations of environmental stewards."-Mark Gold, President, Heal The Bay "We need a sea change in the educational system. After all, if we can teach schoolchildren that vandalism is wrong, why can we not teach them that environmental destruction is wrong? This book is a haunting call to action. A beautifully written manifesto that gets it right."-Ron Swaisgood, Director of Applied Animal Ecology, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global “The greatest threat to the future of all species on the planet is the huge gap between what is understood about global climate change by the scientific community and what is known about climate change by the people who need to know -- the public. The sound prescriptions in this book need to be read now. We are running out of time.”-Dr. James Hansen, world-renowned climatologist and author of Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity “Environmental education is a disaster and educating the public on environmental issues is the greatest challenge facing humanity today. This book will help us understand why we are headed toward the collapse of civilization, and more important, how to fix it. Packed with sound science, useful information, and brilliant ideas, it is a book we must read, and give, to our local school boards and principals nationwide. Our children will thank us."-Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb and Humanity on a Tightrope




Cry of the waters


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