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Teaching Adults about Sustainability, the Cultural Commons & Forms of Enclosure: A Film Project
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This film presentation features the work of adults who entered their communities to embrace learning and teaching about ecojustice education through a focus on human/environmental and cultural relationships.
Target Audience
Adult educators, graduate students, and community members interested in sustainability and environmental education
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to define the cultural commons and forms of enclosure in their communities.
Participants will understand how community work and a focus on human/environmental and cultural relationships promotes ecological sustainability.
Session Description
Environmentalists are advocating a focus on positive human-environment relationships and cultural life rather than a focus on the deleterious effect of human activities. It is more beneficial to teach ecological issues by focusing on sustainable development and positive human/nature relationships evident through immersion in rural local cultural life. Here, I advocate for the teaching of the ‘cultural commons’ or the forms of knowledge, skills, and patterns of mutual support shared among humans. These are practices that exist in every community and represent the culturally diverse legacies that are less dependent upon a money economy and consumerism. This film project chronicles adults who engaged in a week-long Academy for the Critical Inquiry of the Cultural Commons in South Texas, under my direction. Adult in graduate programs engaged in ethnographic work to research the cultural commons and forms of enclosure. Many were changed and view environmental issues in a more hopeful way.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Friday November 8
Primary Presenter
Dr. Audrey Dentith, Lelsey University
Work Title
Associate Professor