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Environmental Education Mind Map

The text explores the multifaceted approach to education that emphasizes sustainability and transformative learning. It underscores the importance of systems thinking and the integration of various subjects and disciplines to cultivate open-mindedness and critical thinking among students.

Environmental Education Mind Map

Environmental Education

Inquiry

An effective community of learners
Problem based learning
Learning process skills and content
Questions important to the students lead the learning
Changes to role of teacher to coach/facilitator/co-learner

Character Development

Sharing Responsibility for Learning with Students

Self-aware of emotions and habits of mind
Group knowledge building
Experience deep democracy
Students as 'citizen learners'
Differentiated learning/program choice
Open-ended, rich learning tasks
Respectful listening

Systems Thinking

Real-World Connections

Case studies
Students communicating with an audience beyond of the classroom
Community school partnerships
Hands-on experience
Sources of information (texts, surveys, measurements, monitoring, online sources, interviews)

Citizenship

Integrated Learning

An inter-connected worldview
Seeing the complexity of issues
Using appropriate expectations from all subjects
A focus on big ideas
Differentiation
A theme approach
A literature approach
Student-led inquiry
Project-based learning

Learning Locally

Teacher field-based pedagogical skills
Nature's annual cycle of events
Learning outside of the classroom
Regional settings and wilderness settings
Nearby built and natural areas
Schoolyards and neighbourhoods

Transformative Learning

Creativity

Critical Thinking

Acting on Learning

Influencing government
Cultural exploration and expression
Student empowerment in school functioning (waste reduction, energy conservation, naturalized landscaping, food sourcing)
Schools 'walk the talk'
Engaging in the action process and reflecting on the results of actions
Studying the actions of others
Authentic improvement of the community (social, environmental, economic)

Student Engagement

Sustainability

Considering alternative perspectives

Provide additional solutions to problems
Different subjects and disciplines
Juxtaposing cultural differences
Identify minority views
Uncover hidden values
Developing open-mindedness
Creating an emotionally safe learning environment

Group Knowledge Building

Individual Knowledge Consolidation