[p2p-research] Fwd: very interesting approach to epistemology

[Michel Bauwens]

see Website:  http://cabowers.net/

key argument: our virtual environments carry hidden and implicit messages
about the (pseudo)abundance of the world, and undermines sustainability
consciousness,

Michel

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chet Bowers <chetbowers at earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Subject: Exploring mutual interests
To: michelsub2004 at gmail.com


Hi Michel:

Many thanks for sending information about where I could learn about your
programs.  I have checked them all out, and was impressed by the scope of
your interests and influence.   As I am not clear about what you have read
of my work, I suggest that you might find it most useful to look at the
following: if you are interested in reforms of the public schools then the
online book, TRANSFORMING ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: MAKING THE CULTURAL AND
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMONS THE FOCUS OF EDUCATIONAL REFORMS  would be the most
useful.  If you are interested in higher educational issues, the online book
to look at would be UNIVERSITY REFORM IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL WARMING; and if
you are interested in language and cultural commons issues, then there are
chapters that you may find useful in the online book, TOWARD A
POST-INDUSTRIAL CONSCIOUSNESS: UNDERSTANDING THE LINGUISTIC BASIS OF
ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE EDUCATIONAL REFORMS.   The two chapters on language
and the chapter on the cultural commons are also relevant in other areas
such as international development discussions, and how to address poverty
issue.  Also, if you check the bio-statement on m,y website you will find a
list of books I have published through regular publishers.  Hope this is
helpful.  I have enclosed the chapter titles that are in the three online
books.  Best wishes,  Chet Bowers

Announcing three new online books that are available by Googling C. A.
Bowers, and going to online articles and books under the Eco-Justice Press.
 As the books are being presented as part of the cultural commons they may
be downloaded without charge.   Sharing this notice with colleagues at your
university and elsewhere will help foster discussions of how to introduce
ecologically sustainable reforms across the disciplines.

University Reform in an Era of Global Warming

Content:
Chapter 1  Rethinking the Mission of the University
Chapter 2  Slowing the Rate Environmental Degradation
Chapter 3  Conceptual Double Binds that Must Be Addressed in Reforming
                             Higher Education
Chapter 4  The Slippery Slope of Double-Bind thinking
Chapter 5  The Platonic Roots of the Double Binds that are Deepening the
Ecological Crises
Chapter 6  University Reforms that Address  Ecological Interconnections  and
Dependencies
Chapter 7  The Cultural Mediating Role of the Professor—Across the
Disciplines
Afterword:
Chapter 8  The Case for Rethinking the Focus and Parameters of Academic
Freedom
**************************************************************************

Toward a Post-Industrial Consciousness: Understanding the Linguistic Basis
of Ecologically Sustainable Educational Reforms
Content:
Chapter 1   Introduction
Chapter 2  Western Philosophy, Language, and the Titanic Mind-Set that has
Put Us on a
       Collision Course With Environmental Limits
Chapter 3 The Linguistic Colonization of the Present by Past Thinkers Who
Were Unaware of Environmental Issues
Chapter 4  How the Linguistic Complicity of George Lakoff Supports the
Market Liberal's Agenda for Enclosing the Cultural and Environmental Commons
Chapter 5  The Double Bind of Environmentalists Who Identify Themselves as
Liberals
Chapter 6  Revitalizing the Cultural Commons in an Era of Political and
Ecological Uncertainties
Chapter 7 Toward an Ecologically Sustainable Vocabulary
Appendix:  Handbook for Faculty Workshops on How to Introduce Cultural
Commons and Ecojustice Issues into Their Courses


Transforming Environmental Education:  Making the Renewal of the

Cultural and Environmental Commons the Focus

     of Educational Reform
Content:

Chapter 1:  Introduction

Chapter 2.  Integrating Environmental Education into Commons Education

Chapter 3:  Teaching Sustainable Cultural Assumptions

Chapter 4:  The Classroom Practice of Commons Education

Chapter 5:  The Political Context of Commons Education

Chapter 6:  Toward Culturally-Grounded Approaches to Teaching and Learning




Website:  http://cabowers.net/
Articles and EcoJustice Press




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