Social Ecology

Martin Large, David Wright, Camden-Pratt Catherine E.

Description

Social ecology provides a holistic framework for change, based on the interrelationships between the personal, social, environmental and 'spiritual'. It helps understand how we got here, and how to realise more sustainable, caring futures. Students from all disciplines can use this valuable resource to help to enrich their learning with insights and principles from social ecology.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology
• Applied ecology

Informations

• Publié par: Hawthorn Press
• Date de parution: 27 mars 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781907359316
• Langue: English

Extrait

SOCIAL ECOLOGY
APPLYING ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDINGS TO OUR LIVES AND OUR PLANET
Edited by David Wright, Catherine E. Camden-Pratt and Stuart B. Hill
To the universe, it’s the only one we have.
Social Ecology © 2011 David Wright, Catherine E. Camden-Pratt and Stuart B. Hill
David Wright, Catherine E Camden-Pratt and Stuart B Hill are hereby identified as the authors of this work in accordance with section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act, 1988. They assert and give notice of their moral rights under this Act.
Published by Hawthorn Press, Hawthorn House, 1 Lansdown Lane, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 1BJ, UK Tel: [phone]        Fax: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail] Website: www.hawthornpress.com
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means (electronic or mechanical, through reprography, digital transmission, recording or otherwise) without prior written permission of the publisher.
Cover illustration: ‘Ancient Land’ by Victoria King, © Victoria King
Typesetting and design by Bookcraft, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK Printed in the UK by Henry Ling Ltd, The Dorset Press, Dorchester. Printed in Australia by Griffin Press, Clayton, Victoria.
Every effort has been made to trace the ownership of all copyrighted material. If any omission has been made, please bring this to the publisher’s attention so that proper acknowledgement may be given in future editions.
The views expressed in this book are not necessarily those of the publisher.
Printed on environmentally friendly paper from renewable forest stock.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data applied for
ISBN 978-1-907359-11-8 EISBN 978-1-907359-31-6
CONTENTS   List of contributors   Acknowledgements
   
  Introduction   David Wright and Stuart B. Hill
  Part 1 The big picture
     1     
 
Social ecology: An Australian perspective   Stuart B. Hill
     2
 
Attempting an integral Earth story in the new century: Prospects for a twenty-first century education   Edmund O’Sullivan
     3
 
The pedagogic ‘sting’: Social ecology and narrative imaginal pedagogy   Peter Willis
     4
 
Epistemic aspects of social ecological conflict   Richard Bawden
     5
 
Chaos, reaction, transformation   Bernie Neville
     6
 
The burden of normality and the prospect of moral imagination   Barry Bignell
  Part 2 The social in ecology
     7
 
Creativity country: A journey through embodied space   Ainslie Yardley
     8
 
Turning on a sixpence: Creating a learning and systems thinking foundation for community participation   Sally MacKinnon
     9
 
Integrating sustainability: Towards personal and cultural change   Jasmin Ball and Kathryn McCabe
  10
 
A journey into place   John Cameron
  11
 
Thinking and acting locally and globally   Martin Mulligan
  12
 
The power and influence of the synthetic cortex   Bruce Fell
  13
 
Story making and myth making – the place of poetic understanding when wrestling with real-world problems   David Russell
  Part 3 Education and transformation
  14
 
Henry Thoreau: Holistic thinker, environmental educator   John P. Miller
  15
 
A curriculum of giving for student wellbeing and achievement –   ‘ How to wear leather sandals on a rough surface’ Thomas William Nielsen
  16
 
Developing wisdom: The possibilities of a transformative education   Roslyn Arnold
  17
 
The school of world peace   Robin Grille
  18
 
Ecological understanding and drama   David Wright
  19
 
Dramatic playfulness and the human spirit   Graeme Frauenfelder
  20
 
Becoming with/in social ecology: Writing as practice in creative learning   Catherine E. Camden-Pratt
  Part 4 Ecological stories
  21
 
We are what we eat   Christy Hartlage
  22
 
Slipping beneath the Kimberley skin   Carol Birrell
  23
 
Climate activism and transformation   James Whelan
  24
 
We are not alone, the shamans tell us   John Broomfield
  25
 
The religion of economics   John Seed, with David Wright
  26
 
A drama ecology of culture   Ben-Zion Weiss
  27
 
Mapping Machans Beach: Meandering in place (a beginning)   Susanne Gannon
   
  Index
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Roslyn Arnold
Roslyn Arnold is an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney. She was Dean of Education at the University of Tasmania and Pro-Dean and Head of School at the University of Sydney. Her research interests are writing development, arts education, teacher education, leadership development and empathic intelligence – a theory of teaching and learning that she has developed to explain the qualities of exceptional educators. She has delivered keynote addresses on her research interests in Australia, the United States, England, Canada and Singapore. Her books include Writing Development: Magic in the Brain (Open University 1992) and Empathic Intelligence: Teaching, Learning, Relating (UNSW Press 2005).
Jasmin Ball
Jasmin Ball was raised in Melbourne, Australia. She fell in love with nature at a young age and has always experienced a strong sense of connection to special childhood places. At the age of six she adopted a rock and kept it as a pet, much to the chagrin of her parents! It was this desire for relationship, place-connection, magic and fun that has motivated her to harness diverse and often unexpected opportunities to experience life at its fullest. Jasmin has over ten years experience teaching sustainable living and change in schools, universities, outdoor settings and corporations. With a background in teaching and a master’s in social ecology, Jasmin has also lectured and tutored in Education for Sustainability for the University of Western Sydney.
Richard Bawden
Richard Bawden is adjunct professor at Michigan State University, a visiting professor at the Open University in the UK, a Fellow and Director of the Systemic Development Institute (SDI), and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Sydney. He has recently retired (August 2007) as a Visiting Distinguished University Professor at Michigan State University. Prior to that he spent 20 years at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, later the University of Western Sydney. For most of that time he was Dean of Agriculture and Rural Development and Professor of Systemic Development. Upon his retirement from that university he was awarded Professor Emeritus status. He has been a Visiting Scholar/Professor and a consultant to systemic development projects in more than two dozen countries across five continents. He has published more than 200 journal articles, book chapters, and keynote conference papers. He is a member of the editorial boards of three international journals.
Barry Bignell
Barry Bignell studied music at the Royal Military School of Music (UK). He studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, and was awarded the Director’s Prize for conducting. Barry was subsequently Director of the Australian Army Band, Melbourne. Barry also studied with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Deutsche Oper, and subsequently pursued a career as a conductor for orchestras, choirs and windbands. He has had a parallel career in education and was Head of Postgraduate Studies in music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. He has lectured widely on musicality and its social and psycho-spiritual implications. He is currently preparing a book on that topic. Barry has a master’s degree in education from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in social ecology from the University of Western Sydney.
Carol Birrell
Carol is an artist, writer and academic exploring the interaction between an indigenous and Western sense of place. Her 2007 PhD thesis is titled Meeting Country: Deep Engagement with Place and Indigenous Culture . She is currently teaching social ecology at the University of Western Sydney and Aboriginal education at the University of Wollongong. She has been working with a land-based arts practice for the last 12 years called ‘ecopoiesis’, which draws together movement, painting, photography, environmental sculpture and poetry as a base for ecological narratives and exploring our ecological identity. Carol has strong long-term connections with Yuin (south coast NSW) and Worrorra (west Kimberley) indigenous communities.
John Broomfield
Born in New Zealand, John did a doctorate at the Australian National University. His distinguished academic career includes fellowships at MIT, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies and the ANU; and service as Professor of Asian and Comparative History at the University of Michigan, and as President of the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. He brings a wealth of experience in cultures around the world, including study with Native American, Tibetan Buddhist, Hindu, Balinese, Maori and Aboriginal Australian teachers. His most recent book is Other Ways of Knowing: Recharting Our Future with Ageless Wisdom (Inner Traditions 1997).
Catherine E. Camden-Pratt
Catherine lectures in social ecology in the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney. Her 2003 PhD was published in 2006 as Out of the Shadows: Daughters Growing up with a ‘Mad’ Mother (Finch Publishing). She has published across creative arts, social ecology, research and pedagogy. Her most recent academic publications include chapters in Pedagogical Encounters (Peter Lang Publishing 2009). Catherine has exhibited her artwork, opened local art exhibitions, presented on social ecology and art making, and written and performed in plays based on research data. In 2010 Catherine received a national university teacher’s award for teaching: The Australian Learning and Teaching Council’s Citation for Teaching Excellence. This award was on the basis of her teaching which ‘foregrounds critical creativity and establishes safe spaces for exper