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16.065. Managing, Locating, and Theorizing Human-Nature/ Ecological Relationships. SIG-Ecological and Environmental Education Sheraton, Ohio, Level 2 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Chair: Justin S. Dillon, King’s College – London

Participants:

Management of Human-Nature Relationships in Environmental Education Resources. Joan M Chambers, University of Alberta; Patricia M. Rowell, University of Alberta

Farming and Land Management as Resources for Environmental Education. Revital Tali Tal, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Student Knowledge of the Relationships Between Human Actions and Environmental Systems. Blakely K. Tsurusaki, Michigan State University; Charles W. Anderson, Michigan State University

Down to Earth: Locating Ecology and Environmental Education Close to Home. M. Gale Smith, University of British Columbia

Discussants: Robert Coulter, Missouri Botanical Garden; Arjen E. Wals, Wageningen University

Amy Sloan, SIG Treasurer.

title: Management of Human-Nature Relationships in Environmental Education Resources.

Joan Chambers, Patricia Rowell, University of Alberta joan.chambers@ualberta.edu
• theoretical framework based on sociocultural view of discourse; semiotic metafunctions (Lemke, Kress & van Leeuwen, & Halliday)
• view of nature (Ostman (1994, 1998) (this is cool)
• biomechanistic, ecomechanistic, organisist,
• Hart (XXXX) suggests that middle childhood is the time to create environmental awareness
• takeaway: overhead slides should be presented in landscape format.

title: “Agricultural Landscapes as a Resource for science and environmental Education”
Tali Tal, Israel
• how to use the farmlands and open spaces.
• takeaway: highlights the potential of out-of-school, and outdoor experiences (she cites Dillon 2004, who is the president of the SIG.
title: “Student knowledge of the relationships between human actions and environmental systems”
Blakely K. Tsurusaki and Charles W. Anderson, Michigan State University
• Environmental Literacy Research Group (Michigan State Group) looking at connection between students and the environment — can they connect their actions with effects?
• takeaway:

title: “Down to Earth: Locating Ecology Awareness Close to Home”
Gail Smith Univ. British Columbia
• Home Economics: Home is where we live (Earth), and Economics refers to stewardship — the stewardship of where we live.
• Wendall Barry : eating is an ecological act. “We’re passive consumers of food”
• David Orr: “We’re food dumb.”
• Focus on food as intersection of “place based education” Environmentalism/sustainability” and School Gardens/Healthy Schools Initiatives”
• many ways of knowing: life-worlds, Narrative, Scientific (analytic/empirical, interpretive, critical — these exist in pedagogical project, Ped relationship, and Ped as Classroom practice.
• why a 4:1 ratio of women to men? Maybe due to gendered understanding of Home Ec?
• takeaway: what can we do to generate hope?

Discussion
Dewey says that mechanization separates people from production/roots.