Item – Theses Canada

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OCLC number
437079199
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LAC copy
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Author
Kanerva, Taina,1973-
Title
Developing eco-consciousness : a critical exploration of the Ontario grade 12 Environment and Resource Management course.
Degree
M.A. -- University of Toronto, 2006
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, [2007]
Description
2 microfiches
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
This study examines a Grade 12 course: The Environment and Resource Management; the sole environmental studies course offered in Ontario at the secondary level. It involves analysis of the formal Ontario curriculum and critical ethnographic research in one urban, multicultural secondary grade 12 class in the Toronto area. The paper is presented through a theoretical framework of eco-pedagogy and eco-literacy and explores how teachers and students reflect and re-construct mainstream environmental discourses and representations of nature as they negotiate through the curriculum, particularly with respect to the development of an eco-consciousness. This analysis is based upon the competencies outlined by the 'Centre for Eco-literacy' (2006); which states that to create a citizenry able to design and maintain sustainable societies one must cultivate competencies of the head, heart, hand and spirit. This thesis concludes with a series of recommendations for creation of an environment conducive to the development of eco-consciousness.
ISBN
9780494210802
049421080X