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Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative

 

Big Ideas, Learning Outcomes, Skills, and References

Relevant to a Sustainability Course or Curriculum

 

 

 

 

Polar Concepts

 

What follows is a series of polar or opposing concepts that are likely to be considered in a sustainability course or curriculum.

 

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Cause/Effect

Disciplinary/Interdisciplinary

Dualism/Relativism 4

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Equity/Inequity

Hope/Despair 5

Justice/Injustice

Monism/Pluralism 6

Objectivity/Subjectivity

Renewable/Nonrenewable

Sustainable/Unsustainable

Top Down/Bottom Up

Utopia/Dystopia

 

Hope is not prognostication.  It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons… Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well… but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good. --- Vaclav Havel

 

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Higher Personal Goals

Virtues

Polar Concepts

Isms
Other Cultural Concepts

Systems Thinking Breakdown

Definitions and Facets of Sustainability

Indicators of Sustainability

Environmental Perspective

Economics Perspective
Sustainability Frameworks and Manifestos

Graphical Models

Ways of Thinking
Skills
Habits of Mind
Web Site Bibliography
Additional Teaching Resources

 

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