Social Ecology

Description

Social ecology provides a holistic framework for change, based on the interrelationships between the personal, social, environmental and 'spiritual'. It helps understand how we got here, and how to realise more sustainable, caring futures. Students from all disciplines can use this valuable resource to help to enrich their learning with insights and principles from social ecology.

Author description

Dr David Wright is the programme coordinator. A researcher and teacher, he comes to social ecology from a background in writing for performance. Dr Catherine E Camden-Pratt is a an artist academic. In 2010 she was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contribution for Student Learning.

Table of contents

Articles about place, story, nature, education and community illustrate ways to apply our understandings from social ecology, holistic education, shamanic practices, poetic inquiry, aesthetics, curriculum design, cross-cultural learning and indigenous knowing. Includes activists' and educators stories of applying social ecology in communities.