Gregory A. Smith is Associate Professor in the Education Department at Lewis and Clark College. He is the author of Education and the Environment: Learning to Live With Limits, also published by SUNY Press, a coauthor of Reducing the Risk: Schools as Communities of Support, and the editor of Public Schools That Work. Dilafruz R. Williams is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Portland State University.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-engaging Culture and Ecology Gregory A. Smith and Dilafruz R. WilliamsPart 1: K-12 Settings 1. Stories from our Common Roots: Strategies for Building an Ecologically Sustainable Way of Learning Joseph Kiefer and Martin Kemple2. Deepening Children's Participation through Local Ecological Investigations Paul Krapfel3. From Human Waste to the Gift of Soil Madbu Suri Prakash and Hedy Richardson4. From Margin to Center: Initiation and Development of an Environmental School from the Ground Up Dilafruz R. Williams and Sarah Taylor5. Exploring Children's Picture Books through Ecofeminist Literacy Elaine G. Schwartz6. Education Indigenous to Place: Western Science Meets Native Reality Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley and Ray BarnhardtPart II: Higher Education and Nonformal Settings 7. Liberation and Compassion in Environmental Studies Stephanie Kaza8. Changing the Dominant Cultural Perspective in Education C. A. Bowers9. Environmental Autobiography in Undergraduate Educational Studies Peter Blaze Corcoran10. Reclaiming Biophilia: Lessons from Indigenous Peoples Gregory Cajete11. Creating a Public of Environmentalists: The Role of Nonformal Education Gregory A. Smith12. Reassembling the Pieces: Ecological Design and the Liberal Arts David W. OrrSelected Programs and Resources that Address Ecological Education Biographical Sketches Index

"Ecological Education in Action vividly evokes the connections between place-based learning and the stories, resources, and needs of communities. Though the chapters here vary widely among the regions they describe and the educational programs they discuss, they return over and over to two central emphases: the value of traditional and localized knowledge in fostering deeper personal identification with a landscape, and the essential connection between ecological sustainability and activism on behalf of social justice. This is one of the most distinctive, useful, and inspiring books I know in the burgeoning field of environmental education." — John Elder, Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Middlebury College"I love it when a book translates ideas I have been kicking around in my mind into articulate, lucid prose. Ecological Education in Action provided that alchemical experience for me. Within a week of reading most of the chapters, I was recommending them to my colleagues and friends. These stories, by some of America's most committed educational practitioners, did the trick. They quenched my thirst for place immersion and they slowly unfolded solutions to the problem of how to make environmental education the warp of the school fabric rather than just tassels attached to the edge. The diverse perspectives, from ecofeminism to indigenous people's education, helped me to understand the broad spectrum of ecological education in all its manifestations. This is a book of trail markers that show you the path to the destination of ecologically inspired K-12 education." — David Sobel, Director, Teacher Certification Programs, Education Department, Antioch New England Graduate School