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Chapters from the paperback
- Introduction
- Ecocriticism
- Optimisation
- Grounded Economic Awareness
- Advertising Awareness
- Transition Skills
- Commons Thinking
- Effortless Action
- Permaculture Design
- Community Gardening
- Ecological Intelligence
- Systems Thinking
- Gaia Awareness
- Futures Thinking
- Values Reflection and the Earth Charter
- Social Conscience
- New Media Literacy
- Cultural Literacy
- Carbon Capability
- Greening Business
- Materials Awareness
- Appropriate Technology and Appropriate Design
- Technology Appraisal
- Complexity, Systems Thinking and Practice
- Coping with Complexity
- Emotional Wellbeing
- Finding Meaning Without Consuming
- Being in the World
- Beauty as a Way of Knowing
- Citizen Engagement
- Re-Educating the Person
- Institutional Transformation
- A Learning Society
- Additional chapters
- Interviews
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Institutional Transformation
Institutional Transformation, Anne Phillips, Director of Schumacher College 1993-2006. Author of Holistic education: learning from Schumacher College
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The purpose of this chapter is to look at some of the changes that educational institutions will need to make if their learners are to acquire sustainability literacy skills for life in the twenty first century. Instead of providing a blue-print for institutions which focuses on a particular form, I am advocating an education system where process is paramount and itself becomes the change that will take us through sustainability literacy towards sustainability. My work at Schumacher College was to translate the new world view into both an overt and a hidden curriculum. For me therefore, the really interesting question is how institutions can transform themselves so they are ready and willing to embrace such a process. As we begin to see the unprecedented disruption of the life systems that have sustained us, it is clear that the need is urgent and unavoidable.
