WELCOME “If some do not keep pace with their companions, perhaps it is because they hear a...

WELCOME

“If some do not keep pace with their companions, perhaps it is because they hear a different drummer… let them step to the music which they hear,

however measured or far away.”

Henry D. Thoreau

Dr. Garth Pickard

Re-orienting Educational Practice to Address Sustainability

The Significance of Outdoor Education

http://www.thoreausociety.org/life-legacy


For me . . . an evolution


How next happens . . . What happens next


What happens next is

WHY YOU ARE SO IMPORTANT


Environmental Education. Physical Education, Mathematics, Social Studies, Population Education. Development Education, Energy Education HIV/AIDS Education. Permaculture Education, Citizenship Education, Democracy Education. Consumer Education Media Education, Experiential Education, Workplace Education, Conservation Education, Anti-Racist Education, Religious Education, Equity Education, Gender Education, Holocaust Education Entrepreneurship Education, Horticulture Education, Water Education Global Education Drug Education. Sex Education. International Studies. Family Studies. Human Rights Education, Women's Studies, Native Studies, Values Education. Natural History Education, Vocational Education, Economic Education, Anti-smoking Education, Conflict Resolution Education. Workplace education Disaster Prevention Education, Computer Studies, Life-Skills Education, Recycling Education, Civics Education, Heritage Education, Community Studies, Multicultural Education, Anti-Violence Education, Systems Thinking Education, Futures Education, Biodiversity Education, Pioneer Studies, Nutrition Education, Resource Management Education, Self-Image Education, Peace Education, Leadership Education, Cooperative Education, Character Education, Sexual Orientation Education , War Education, History, Health Education, . . . . . . . .

What is the purpose of education?

Just maybe the purpose of education needs to be all about sustaining the well-being, of all, over the long term



It is about what has happened to all of us . . . and what we will do, with what has happened! Aldous Huxley

We need to pause and reflect on the purpose of education in order to make things happen!

(Condie)

http://www.egs.edu/library/aldous-huxley/biography/

http://www.tourismsaskatchewan.com/site-info/all-listings-and-packages/105284/regina---condie-nature-refuge


http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/002 3/002305/230514e.pdf

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002305/230514e.pdf


The Significance of Outdoor EducationThe Significance of Outdoor Education

The answer to ‘how next happens’ evolves from one understanding that from today and into the future:

1. The Purpose of Education is now oriented to ensuring the Well-being, of all, forever ... guaranteed through an interdisciplinary curricula experience, which provides for this most important educational cause ... and ...

The ‘concept’ of Outdoor Education has infused itself in future educational practice

The answer to ‘how next happens’ evolves from one understanding that from today and into the future:

2. The Pedagogy of Education must breathe life into learning for this most important educational cause through … interdisciplinarity, experiential, place-based, multi-sensory; and, spiritual learning

What happens next…How next happens


The answer to ‘how next happens’ evolves from one understanding that today and into the future:

3. That the Purpose of Education embraces the notion that sustainability, community, and a third; humility, born out of gratitude are the ingredients which collectively provide the foundation for making sense of what education needs to become.



The answer to ‘how next happens’ evolves from one understanding that today and into the future:

4. Those engaged in Education, recognize that teaching, research and learning are consequences of an integral/whole process. And that the educational practices of “parceling” learning and not appreciating the aggregate nature of the phenomenon itself are directly opposed to those efforts.



Assembly Helps


Handprints

Footprints(environmental, social, economic, cultural)

TomorrowToday

Exploratory & assessment

Greening & cost savingRecycling

Energy savingsWater/waste reductionGreen purchasingCafeteria compostingWater bottle bansFood source and handlingGreen buildingsTransportation

Natural and social sciencesTeaching for SDOverarching principle at TEI Transdisciplinary approachFocus on informed actionAssessment and reportingValues /Ethics embedded (EC)

Exemplary modelsEmbedded throughoutCommunity partnershipGreening all school designCorporate CitizenshipFull Cost AccountingTracking and reporting

Natural sciencesTeaching about SDEnvironmental studiesIndividuals at TEIClimate change researchWaterEco-schoolGreen Economics

C. Hopkins, 2012

Action & embedded

Useful to all of society


WHY YOU ARE IMPORTANT?

BECAUSE YOU ARE KEY TO ...

EDUCATIONAL CHANGE


So what has happened to you over your career … and what happens next?


Ask yourself:

‘What do I want others to learn from me for the rest of their lives?’

If, for example, your answers are; ‘volley-ball’, ‘Shakespeare’, ‘Math’, ‘Biology’, ‘canoeing’ …

Ask yourself . . . So what’s the point?


Change is not a Choice


Take care of yourselves

Dr. Garth Pickard

http://uregina.ca/~pickard/

http://uregina.ca/~pickard/

“If some do not keep pace with their companions, perhaps it is because they hear a different drummer… let them step to the music which they hear,

however measured or far away.”

Henry D. Thoreau

Dr. Garth Pickard

Re-orienting Educational Practice to Address Sustainability


http://www.thoreausociety.org/life-legacy

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