Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences

by William Forbes

Book Overview

From the Foreword by David Orr: ". . . T]he authors here describe a curriculum of applied hope. No discipline is exempt from the effort to extend awareness of our implicatedness in the world, and from the effort to create a better future than that in prospect. As scholars and teachers, they are responding to the intellectual and moral imperatives of "the long emergency.". . . The overwhelming fact of our time is that life on Earth is in peril,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622880617
• ISBN13: 9781622880614
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 14 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary