{"product_id":"to-know-the-world-isbn-9780262539821","title":"To Know the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy environmental learning is crucial for understanding the connected challenges of climate justice, tribalism, inequity, democracy, and human flourishing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can we respond to the current planetary ecological emergency? In \u003ci\u003eTo Know the World\u003c\/i\u003e, Mitchell Thomashow proposes that we revitalize, revisit, and reinvigorate how we think about our residency on Earth. First, we must understand that the major challenges of our time—migration, race, inequity, climate justice, and democracy—connect to the biosphere. Traditional environmental education has accomplished much, but it has not been able to stem the inexorable decline of global ecosystems. Thomashow, the former president of a college dedicated to sustainability, describes instead \u003ci\u003eenvironmental learning\u003c\/i\u003e, a term signifying that our relationship to the biosphere must be front and center in all aspects of our daily lives. In this illuminating book, he provides rationales, narratives, and approaches for doing just that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixing memoir, theory, mindfulness, pedagogy, and compelling storytelling, Thomashow discusses how to navigate the Anthropocene's rapid pace of change without further separating psyche from biosphere; why we should understand migration both ecologically and culturally; how to achieve constructive connectivity in both social and ecological networks; and why we should take a cosmopolitan bioregionalism perspective that unites local and global. Throughout, Thomashow invites readers to participate as educational explorers, encouraging them to better understand how and why environmental learning is crucial to human flourishing.\u003c\/p\u003ePart One: Why Environmental Learning Matters\u003cbr\u003e1 The Past and Future of Environmental Learning\u003cbr\u003e2 Memory Forever Unfolding\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Environmental Learning in the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e3 The Tides of Change\u003cbr\u003e4 Is the Anthropocene Blowing Your Mind?\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: The Future of Environmental Learning\u003cbr\u003e5 Constructive Connectivity (Ecological and Social Networks)\u003cbr\u003e6 Migration (The Movement of People and Species)\u003cbr\u003e7 Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: To Know the World\u003cbr\u003e8 Improvisational Excellence\u003cbr\u003e9 Perceptual Reciprocity“Mitch Thomashow is a preeminent environmental educator, and this book makes clear why: his range of curiosity, insight, and learning is remarkable, and remarkably useful to us all!”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Bill McKibben\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eFalter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eTo Know the World\u003c\/i\u003e provides a pathway of reconnecting and remembering, challenging us to embrace ecological learning and our connection to place so that we can co-create an equitable and just future in which we don’t just survive but thrive.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Amber Pairis\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDirector, Climate Science Alliance, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; affiliate of the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Using a compass of rich metaphor, deft synthesis, and a lifetime of personal experience, Thomashow envisions a hopeful path to the future of environmental learning, inviting and guiding us through thickets of social and environmental issues shaping our collective lives.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Running Grass\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eExecutive Director, Three Circles Center for Multicultural Environmental Education; author of \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Multicultural Environmental Learning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMitchell Thomashow is the author of \u003ci\u003eEcological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by the MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301891068133,"sku":"NP9780262539821","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539821.jpg?v=1767742708","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/to-know-the-world-isbn-9780262539821","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}