Education for SustainabilitySummer Institute 2012University of Manitoba

Topic: The Social Pillar of Sustainability

Invocation - Michael

First Grade by Ron Koertge

Until then, every forest

had wolves in it, we thought

it would be fun to wear snowshoes

all the time, and we could talk to water.

 

So who is this woman with the gray

breath calling out names and pointing

to the little desks we will occupy

for the rest of our lives?

Contemplative Practice

Meditation – Gary or volunteer

Response to Course Feedback

Gary

Reading

Max-Neef, M. Elizalde, A. & Hopenhayn, M. (1991). Development and Human Needs. In M. Max-Neef (Ed.), Human scale development: Conception, application and further reflections, pp. 13-54. New York, NY: The Apex Press.

Reading

Share your informal responseShare your questionsWhole group discussion

My needs to live well vs. “needs according to existential categories and needs according to axiological categories

Satisifiers (of needs) Violators or destroyers (of needs)

The Empathic Civilization

RSA animate on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g&feature=relmfu (10min 40sec)

Break

Group 5’s Menu

An Empathic and Sustainable CommunityDiscussion of “The Empathic Civilization”Create a list (on the whiteboard) of the

necessary qualities of an empathic community if it were on course to a sustainable future, for example, good schools that are educating for sustainable futures).

NOTE: A quality must first be shared publicly, discussed, and agreed upon before being added to the list.)

Lunch

See you at 1 pm

Winnipeg – Our Community

Winnipeg – Our Community

Winnipeg – Our Community

Winnipeg – Our Community

Winnipeg – Our Community

Winnipeg’s North End

Map of Food Banks and Soup Kitchens in the North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Winnipeg’s North End

Identify Your Major Concerns

Review the list of qualities associated with sustainable empathic communities.

Create a list of the issues or problems you are concerned about in the community of Winnipeg

You will collectively create a class list of issues/problems on the white board. After the first entries are made, only entries that are not on the list will be added and tally marks will be drawn beside those issues/problems that were also on your list.

Discussion of results (What skills would one need to begin to address/solve these issues/problems?

Contemplative Practice

Yoga

Activity–What’s In a Name?

Gary

Homework

Readings (Topics and Readings sent to you by Mike and on the Wiki)

Informal response (IR)Come with a group discussion question Daily Reflective Journal (DRJ)

Group work