Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative
Big Ideas,
Learning Outcomes, Skills, and References
Relevant to a
Sustainability Course or Curriculum
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Habits of Mind
What follows is a list of the Habits of Mind we might want to
encourage in students of sustainability.
This list was generated by many Washington State academics over several Curriculum for
the Bioregion workshops.
For other takes on the Habits of Mind we might want to encourage
in students of sustainability, see:
- The Cloud
Institute’s Education for Sustainability Standards. 75
- Creating a
Sustainability Curriculum 76
- Achieving
Transformative Sustainability Learning 77
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Respect
for Earth’s systems and interconnectedness as the nature of the world |
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“Cradle-to-cradle” thought and practice |
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Nature as model/bio-mimicry |
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Small actions can lead to large impacts |
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Actions in one place can affect conditions/actions elsewhere |
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Respect and
understanding for the interconnectedness among people |
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Society
thinking instead of individualism |
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Reliance between different societies |
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How one group’s actions can impact others (positively and
negatively) |
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We rely on the experiments and knowledge of the people that
came before and from across the globe, and of our neighbors |
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Civic consciousness in one’s place |
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An animated knowledge of place – dynamic and sensory
perception |
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Attachment to one’s place – intuitive attachment, bioregional
connectedness |
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Sense of citizenship, civic responsibility, and agency in
one’s place (both social and ecological community) |
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An understanding of the diversity of lived experiences and
perspectives within our communities — we need to learn from each other and
address each other’s needs (ethic of care)—and thus the importance of
INCLUSION in creating real change. |
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Shared responsibility for the
future/ethic of care |
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Understanding of intergenerational responsibility |
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Working toward intragenerational
equity/responsibility |
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Positive vision of desirable future |
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Understanding of urgency, that the time to act is now |
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Sense that the future does not have to be same as the past |
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Sustainability is worth pursing (moral, economic, social,
environmental..) |
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Commons thinking |
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Practice of the precautionary principle |
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Representation and inclusion |
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Critical hope |
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There is hope: no beginning is too small, no goal too large |
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Commitment and motivation to become personally and civically
engaged |
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Imagination of a collective vision of a positive future |
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Power is everywhere and not limited to those higher on the
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An understanding of the movement of movements |
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Humility |
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Respect for all living beings and the non-living world (beyond
anthropocentrism) |
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Acknowledgement that we have a limited understanding of how
things work |
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Acknowledgement that uncertainty is an acceptable state |
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Respect for humans’ place in nature (both positive and
negative) |
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Respect for the wisdom of other cultures in the world and
other cultures in history |
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Respect for the knowledge and experience of other people
around you including…the poor, people of color, people who disagree with you
(and visa versa) |
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Humility about the term “sustainability” as an evolving idea |
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Skepticism |
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