LibGuides: Recycling and Sustainability: Teaching and Learning Resources

Books

Books on Recycling and Sustainability

The books listed here, with the exception of Silent spring (1962) by Rachel Carson, were published from 2005 to the present. Titles not available in the MAC Library can be ordered for your personal use through interlibrary loan services. Suggestions for titles to be added to the Library's collection are welcome.

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Teaching Resources from Other Colleges

Curriculum for the Bioregion: Teaching about Teaching Sustainability David Shapiro, Cascadia Community College Summary "This activity is an assignment, in-class activity, and ideally, service-learning option that develops in college students the ability to foster, in pre-college students, an awareness of challenges associated with getting human beings to agree upon and abide by practices that foster environmental sustainability. The intended design is that college students, through a series of in-class exercises, familiarize themselves with the dynamic behind a particular kind of human-induced environmental challenge and then develop lesson plans to teach this dynamic to younger students in a classroom setting."
Environmental & Sustainability Education: A Teachers College Imitative (Columbia University) "What is the role of schools of education in the face of global environmental challenges? Launched in 2015, the Teachers College Working Group on Environmental and Sustainability Education aims to address this question by bringing together faculty, students, and staff from across the College. We define Environmental and Sustainability Education as an interdisciplinary pedagogical movement that examines the interactions between environmental, social, health, and economic issues that together promote the long-term health of complex living systems."
Sustainability Activities for College Students, SERC – Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College This site provides links to a variety of activities related to promoting sustainability concepts within a wide spectrum of disciplines.
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future: A Multimedia Teacher Education Programme (UNESCO) "Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is a UNESCO programme for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. It provides professional development for student teachers, teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and authors of educational materials."
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The modules are divided into 4 themes: Curriculum Rationale, Sustainable Development across the Curriculum, Contemporary Issues and Teaching & Learning Strategies.
Teaching Psychology for Sustainability "How You Can Use This Site Resources are organized according to traditional subdisciplines of psychology, but many of the topics, activities, and multimedia resources could have application in a variety of classes, so we encourage instructors to explore the site. Each subdiscipline page includes the following content areas: LECTURE/DISCUSSION TOPICS CLASS ACTIVITIES MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES SUGGESTED READINGS FOR STUDENTS REFERENCES CITED IN THIS SECTION"
Teaching Recycling: The Relationship between Education and Behavior among College Freshman and Its Effect on Campus Recycling Rates from the University of Wisconsin System, Solid Waste Research Program, Undergraduate Project Report, October 2008
Teaching Sustainability: Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University "In a globalizing world of limited resources and unlimited ingenuity, colleges and universities play a vital role in preparing students to meet the sustainability challenges of the future. The imperatives of sustainability point not only to new course content, but also to new ways of teaching that content. As a project with relevance across the disciplines, sustainability presents a valuable paradigm for rethinking pedagogy."
Teaching Sustainability: Resources for Educators, Developed by the Center for Global Studies, Penn State, College of the Liberal Arts The focus of the resources at this site is on K-12 educators. The administrators of this site pose the question, "Why teach susgtainability?" The response give is simply that the “why” of sustainability requires asking students questions that are future-oriented. As a result, teaching sustainability in schools raises climate change awareness and illustrates to students how they play a significant role in the solution of this problem.

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Recycling and Sustainability: Teaching and Learning Resources

Books

Teaching Resources from Other Colleges

from the Blog "Recycle Coach"

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