Access To Knowledge
Examples of this pattern in action:
Teton Science School
"If you're trying to teach kids about the wonders of nature, you'd be hard pressed to find a better setting than the Teton Science School outside Jackson, Wyoming. For thirty years now, youngsters have come to this cluster of log cabins at the foot of the towering Teton mountain range to learn the basics of ecology and get a grounding in scientific observation."
Eric Whitney, Producer, High Plains News Service, National Public Radio, August, 1997
Astoria Community Information Center
People and communities of the Lower Columbia Pacific region have experienced a loss of traditional resource based jobs and are isolated from the centers of commerce, culture, information and education. The changing world of telecommunications can have a profound positive impact on our people if we choose to use these new technologies. To utilize technology requires two things, access and training, and the CIC provides both.
Center for Ecoliteracy
The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to fostering the experience and understanding of the natural world. They recognizes food systems and watersheds as essential systems that provide meaningful contexts for achieving ecological literacy (ecological understanding). To ground education in the uniqueness of place, they work with whole schools on projects that take school children out of the classroom and into the natural world.
Sea Resources
Sea Resources strives to improve student performance and understanding while improving the ecological processes of the Chinook watershed.
Rediscovery International
For more than 20 years Rediscovery programs have pioneered new approaches to experiential education, self discovery, cross-cultural understanding and environmental awareness. It has been done so not in a formal classroom setting but through immersion. There is an old saying: "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand."
Organizations whose work incorporate this pattern:
E/The Environmental Magazine
Ecological Literacy Project
The Orion Society
References:
Bowers, Chet. Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture: Rethinking Moral Education, Creativity, Intellige. State University of New York. New York, NY. 1995.
Cajete, Gregory. Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education. Kivaki Press. Durango, CO. 1994.
Orr, David. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. State University of New York. New York, NY. 1992.
Smith, April A.. Campus Ecology: A Guide to Assessing Environmental Quality and Creating Strategies for Change. Living Planet Press. Los Angeles, CA. 1993.
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