1. Making sense of the
world when you’re six
Primary Education and Environmental Systems
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2. This thesis presents the hypothesis that young
children can gain a deep and systemic understanding
of their place in the greater complex world when
the concept of environmental interdependence is
included in primary education through
creativity and systems thinking.
As opposed to current society’s predominant state
of passivity, the consequential values and behaviors
that arise from this understanding will create an
environmentally motivated society that actively
nurtures and helps restore our shared eco-systems.
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3. Research Outline
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4. I: Introduction
1. Hypothesis
2. Concept and Importance
http://www.desd.org/index.htm
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
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5. II: Education for Sustainability
1. Concept and Importance of
Sustainbility
http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture/
sustainability.shtml
2. Current Models & Methods of
Teaching EfS
The Cloud Institute
http://www.cloudinstitute.org/
Center For Ecoliteracy
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/
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6. II: Education for Sustainability
(continued)
2.Current Models & Methods of
Teaching EfS (continued)
The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy:
Skills for a Changing World
Edited by Arran Stibbe
Young Children and the Environment: Early
Education for Sustainability
By Julie M. Davis
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7. III: Converting Awareness
to Action
1.
Creativity
Blue School NYC
http://blueschool.org/
The Invention of Kidergarten
http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/
Philosophy/Norman-Brosterman-Invention-of-
Kindergarten.aspx
2.
Systems Thinking
What is Systems Thinking?
http://learningforsustainability.net/research/
systems_thinking.php
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/philosophical-
grounding/systems-perspective
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8. IV: Project
1. Project Description
2. Working Methodology
3. Implementation
4. Feedback Process
V: Conclusion
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9. Thank You
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