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Education for Sustainability

Education for Sustainability. Summer Institute 2012 University of Manitoba. Topic: The Social Pillar of Sustainability . Invocation - Michael . First Grade by Ron Koertge. Until then, every forest had wolves in it, we thought it would be fun to wear snowshoes

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Education for Sustainability

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  1. Education for Sustainability Summer Institute 2012 University of Manitoba

  2. Topic: The Social Pillar of Sustainability

  3. Invocation - Michael

  4. First Gradeby Ron Koertge Until then, every forest had wolves in it, we thought it would be fun to wear snowshoes all the time, and we could talk to water. So who is this woman with the gray breath calling out names and pointing to the little desks we will occupy for the rest of our lives?

  5. Contemplative Practice • Meditation – Gary or volunteer

  6. Response to Course Feedback • Gary

  7. Reading • Max-Neef, M. Elizalde, A. & Hopenhayn, M. (1991). Development and Human Needs. In M. Max-Neef (Ed.), Human scale development: Conception, application and further reflections, pp. 13-54. New York, NY: The Apex Press.

  8. Reading • Share your informal response • Share your questions • Whole group discussion • My needs to live well vs. “needs according to existential categories and needs according to axiological categories • Satisifiers (of needs) • Violators or destroyers (of needs)

  9. The Empathic Civilization • RSA animate on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g&feature=relmfu (10min 40sec)

  10. Break • Group 5’s Menu

  11. An Empathic and Sustainable Community • Discussion of “The Empathic Civilization” • Create a list (on the whiteboard) of the necessary qualities of an empathic community if it were on course to a sustainable future, for example, good schools that are educating for sustainable futures). NOTE: A quality must first be shared publicly, discussed, and agreed upon before being added to the list.)

  12. Lunch See you at 1 pm

  13. Winnipeg – Our Community

  14. Winnipeg – Our Community

  15. Winnipeg – Our Community

  16. Winnipeg – Our Community

  17. Winnipeg – Our Community

  18. Winnipeg’s North End

  19. Map of Food Banks and Soup Kitchens in the North End

  20. Winnipeg’s North End

  21. Winnipeg’s North End

  22. Winnipeg’s North End

  23. Winnipeg’s North End

  24. Winnipeg’s North End

  25. Winnipeg’s North End

  26. Winnipeg’s North End

  27. Winnipeg’s North End

  28. Winnipeg’s North End

  29. Winnipeg’s North End

  30. Winnipeg’s North End

  31. Identify Your Major Concerns • Review the list of qualities associated with sustainable empathic communities. • Create a list of the issues or problems you are concerned about in the community of Winnipeg • You will collectively create a class list of issues/problems on the white board. After the first entries are made, only entries that are not on the list will be added and tally marks will be drawn beside those issues/problems that were also on your list. • Discussion of results (What skills would one need to begin to address/solve these issues/problems?

  32. Contemplative Practice • Yoga

  33. Activity–What’s In a Name? • Gary

  34. Homework • Readings (Topics and Readings sent to you by Mike and on the Wiki) • Informal response (IR) • Come with a group discussion question • Daily Reflective Journal (DRJ)

  35. Group work

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