Education plays an important role in the way people view their relationship to the natural world. It is important that we include concepts of sustainability in formal education, and my focus is in higher education. People tend to protect that with which they feel most connected, and creating opportunities where people can become immersed in the natural world allows them to feel that connection with nature. A nature immersion model recognizes the value...

The Sustainable Quality of Life for Artisans Practicing the Fair Trade Business Model study examines the principles of the Fair Trade Business Model (FTBM). The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is used often as a frame of reference by American writers. Other International Fair Trade organizations are referenced for supporting data on Fair Trade (FT). This paper looks at how and if the Fair Trade Business Model can position itself firmly within a "new globalization,...

Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- Prescott College, 2010 Self-awareness, cultural competency, environmental consciousness, and economic empathy are often achieved through study abroad travel experiences. This phenomenological study was intended to shed light on the inter'national backpacking study abroad experiences for college students, describing the phenomenon from the perspective of the participants and its meaning for those participants. The literature...

This dissertation focuses on the North Fork Mono (or Nium ) Tribe's historiography and oral narratives about its land and water tenure. I begin with a recounting of my recent experiences in elementary school curriculum development about Native Americans and the environment and a discussion of the clash in worldviews that this work brought to the surface. Then, by drawing on secondary sources, on archival research into federal land records and anthropologists'...

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A philosophy of ecosystem conservation has influenced a progressive history of conservation policy in the United States, resulting in a management paradigm with the ecosystem management and adaptive management models at its core. However, as progressive as our conservation policies are, ecosystem management and adaptive management are not currently being implemented to the extent that is needed to realize broad-scale ecosystem conservation. For example,...

This study developed a psychometric scale to measure types and intensities of challenges (stressors) on wilderness education expeditions. This new tool can help assess developmentally appropriate challenges on wilderness education, but it also has a higher utility. A broader aim was to shift a base metaphor about stress in wilderness education from fear (Ewert, 1986b) to challenge . Stress scientists made this clarification with Selye (1974), but...

In this dissertation, the author develops a critical pedagogy of sustainability and promotes its application in higher education. This pedagogy is a form of praxis rooted in Gramsci's theory of agency. It weaves together threads of related theory rooted in social critique and analysis of global political economy, recognition of the importance of place as a context and construct for sustainable living, local food action, and counterhegemonic sustainability...