Contemplative Approaches to Sustainability in Higher Education: Theory and Practice - Paperback

by Marie Eaton (Editor), Holly J. Hughes (Editor), Jean MacGregor (Editor)

Contributors in this book present both a rationale as well as a theoretical framework for incorporating reflective and contemplative pedagogies to help students pause, deepen their awareness, think morer carefully, and work with complexity in sustainability-focused courses.

Author Biography

Marie Eaton is Director of the Palliative Care Institute and Professor Emerita of Humanities and Education at Western Washington University, USA.

Holly J. Hughes is a poet, naturalist, and co-founder of the Sustainability Initiative at Edmonds Community College, USA, where she teaches writing and interdisciplinary classes focusing on natural history and sustainability.

Jean MacGregor is Director of Curriculum for the Bioregion, an inter-institutional initiative of the Washington Center for Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College, USA, where she also teaches in the Master of Environmental Studies Program.