ERSC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Environmental Education, David Sobel, Intergovernmental Conference
23 Feb 2016
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Stages in a child"s understanding of environment. For hundreds of thousands of years humans have been imbedded in their environment. Humans conceived themselves as distinct from the natural world. Wayland drew refers to boundary between humans and their environment as the green wall . The emergence of environmental problems a focus on the word environment (example: tree becoming lumber) (over the last hundred years) Learning how to deal with environmental problems. 1960 rachel carson"s book silent spring (birds no longer chirping in the spring due to pesticides, was the first to realize pesticides were dangerous for life) 1972 club of rome published limits to growth (computer modeling to figure out what would happen if humans continued to live the same way, there would be a collapse, first people to predict the future) 1972 un conference on the human environment. 1975 unesco creates the belgrade charter (focusing on environmental education)
