Creating a Climate for Change: Educating for “intelligent environmental action” in an age of global warming

摘要: If you want to understand nature, must be conversant with the language in which nature speaks us. Richard Feynman What does it mean “conversant us,” and how do we help others develop this capacity? From a pedagogical perspective, if address climate change people become part of solution rather than problem, answer question. One authors watched as her two-year-old son took hand another little boy on playground brought him over fence “see pretty sunset.” His sense wonder enthusiasm for sharing inspires hope future, yet there is strong evidence that all ages or patterns nature. Too often, children grow up, they lose their appreciation connection natural world. This is, itself, deep loss. But even retain an beauty few us ever understanding inherent complexities dynamics our environment. To solve environmental problems, intuitive certainly necessary, but by no means sufficient. How learn nature? encourage development “environmental intelligence” and, more importantly, “intelligent action”?