Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture

C. A. Bowers is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Portland State University and has written widely on education, modernity, and the ecological crisis. His most recent books include Elements of a Post-Liberal Theory of Education; The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing; Critical Essays on Education, Modernity, and the Recovery of the Ecological Imperative; and Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes, published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Toward a Radical and Ecologically Sustainable Approach to Moral Education 3. Rethinking the Modern Ideal of Creativity 4. Educational Computing and the Ecological Crisis: Some Critical Concerns 5. Toward an Ecological View of Intelligence 6. Toward the Recovery of Trans-Generated Communication in the Educational Process 7. Educational Models of Community and Environmental Renewal References Index

"I am very enthusiastic about this book. The author has continued the high level of inquiry established in his Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis. The discussion of creativity, technology, and intelligence are superb. He is asking fundamental questions and doing so with real intellectual rigor and passion." — David W. Orr, Oberlin College "This is one of the best books I've read on the challenge of the environmental crisis to our forum of education and our deeply held assumptions as a culture. It is of urgent importance in itself and to several fields of study." — Alan Drengson, University of Victoria"Bowers shows how we cannot have an ecologically sustainable culture when our educational institutions continue to reinforce the very aspects of modern culture that are now devastating the environment. Modern culture is based on the idea that change is progressive and that the individual is the basic social unit. But Bowers explains that 'our own culture's highest values may now be the chief impediment to the evolution of a land ethic.' " — Dolores LaChapelle, author of Earth Wisdom and Sacred Land Sacred Sex