Learning in the Anthropocene Reimagining Education in the Twenty-First Century
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Carl Maida is professor emeritus of public and population health at the University of California, Los Angeles.Professor Carl Maida has crafted an anthropology informed text, an authoritative statement, in part a social history, about the power of experience-based learning within a political, socio-economic, and physical environment framework.
- Sam Beck, Cornell University,
With a skillful mix of ethnographic and historical analysis, Carl Maida has provided a roadmap for an engaged pedagogy, as the young, together with the rest of us, confront challenges to personal life and the planet.
- Brian McKenna, University of Michigan, Dearborn,
Fascinating and mesmerizing! Carl Maida takes us on a broad, imaginative, and compelling journey of thinking and rethinking education in the 21st Century in Learning in the Anthropocene: Reimagining Education in the Twenty-First Century.
- Yong Zhao Ph.D., University of Kansas,
<b><i>Learning in the Anthropocene: Reimagining Education in the 21st Century</i></b> is an important body of work that addresses how education should be envisioned in an age of acceleration punctuated with crisis, transition, and fluidity.
Journal of International and Comparative Education
This book reimagines the education of future generations in our complex society. The author argues that two provinces—the school and society—can join together to afford students greater freedom to produce future knowledge as humanity faces profound challenges to its existence by advancing experiential instructional approaches.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: Millennial Adolescence
1.Reimagining Education
2.Learning from the Anthropocene
3.Preparing for Life
Part II: Changing the Subject
4.Project-Based Learning as a Critical Pedagogy
5.Crafting Communities of Learners
6.Cultivating Intergenerational Mentoring
7.Reinventing Apprenticeships in Learning
Part III: Rationality and Redemption
8.Times of Promise
9.The Machine Age
10.Postwar
11.Millennium
12.A Place in the World
Bibliography
About the Author
As scholars examine the environmental challenges facing humanity, they increasingly recognize that solutions require a focus on the human causes and consequences of these threats, and not merely a focus on the scientific and technical issues. To meet this need, the Environment and Society series explores a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Books in this series help the reader understand contemporary environmental concerns, while offering concrete steps to address these problems. Books in this series include both monographs and edited volumes that are grounded in the realities of ecological issues identified by the natural sciences. Our authors and contributors come from disciplines including but not limited to anthropology, architecture, area studies, communication studies, economics, ethics, gender studies, geography, history, law, pedagogy, philosophy, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and theology. To foster a constructive dialogue between these researchers and environmental scientists, the Environment and Society series publishes work that is relevant to those engaged in environmental studies, while also being of interest to scholars from the author’s primary discipline.
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