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Notes

Concept Mapping

Learning

• Leornian
  • To follow/find a track
    • Intergenerational

Teaching

• TWITBL, kind of the curriculum
• Curriculum
  • Circularity of a curriculum implies continuity and renewal
  • Circular as you’ve started at a certain point, explored, and came back
    • Start with syllabus, learn specific topics, reflect on entire course at end
• Scaffolding
  • A temporary support to help build skills
    • Gradually removed as a student stays in the zone of proximal development
      • Teacher’s responsibility to judge on how much to support

School

• Free time
  • Suspension of productivity from life
• Gathering

Education

• Educare is to instill
• Educere is to be led out to be able to learn, to get onto the track of learning
• Indoctrination
  • Education is more free-willed

Pedagogy

• Peda means child
  • gogy means leading
• Content to learn
• Learner and educator/facilitator
• Levels of socialization/interaction
• All involve time and space
  • Navigating localized topics, have to be walked

Changing educational topics to the theme of anthropocene help encompass everything, provides a new start/path

Seminar

• Anthropocene- How human activity has made an ecological impact on the earth and it’s ecosystem throughout a period of time

Four main topics:

Sociological context of education

Implement anthropocene into school?

• Project/research paper highlighting human effects on nature
  • Helps you learn by yourself, apply to your own lives
• Join/create orgnizations to experience the ecosystem
• Field trip

How to shift the perspective that we’ve been born into

• Realize that we will be doomed, and that we shouldn’t repeat the same mistakes

Development in the anthropocene

• Political system are more focused on short-term satisfaction for donors more than sustainable economic growth

  • More backlash, in politics you just want to be re-elected through greenwashing, pretending that something is environmentally friendly

• Impact = ( P x A x T )

• Emphasis on unlimited growth at any economic cost

• Josh works in food industry, sees environmental transition into bags

• Big money people are working towards environmentalism

  • Sure it helps, but it doesn’t align with their environmental actions
    • Why don’t they work on solving the problem?
  • Donations are tax evasion

• Not driving can a choice to not contribute to the environment

  • Cary has gradually made environmental decisions to play his part in preserving the earth
    • He acknowledges his actions don’t make a huge action in the grand scheme of things, but he just does it to shift his views

• Cancel cycle

  • Apologizing

Rehabilitation of place and climate

Economic development in relation to colonism and patriarchy?

• Colonization involves improving/progressing what is colonized, kicking someone else out
• Unidirectional relationship, taking but not giving back
• A true ecological perspective requires us to not distance ourselves, but to properly embed ourselves

Limits of environmentalism

• Incorporating schooling into education
  • Some people had clubs, but people like Sadie’s did not work out
  • Sense of greenwashing
    • Putting green
    • Green garden
    • Lack of effort towards sustaining
  • We may try, but we need the skills to do so
  • Teachers not actively cooperating with students is a dysfunctional school culture

What are the other reasons, beside the impact on the

Have schools been teaching this enough?

• No, people say “one day maybe someone will fix it”
• Reese has learned environmental through social media rather than in education
  • A genuine cry for help

Closing

Anthropocene can be a right term to close things off

Thoughts/Questions

Created:: 2021-11-17 17:11