"greening the curriculum": Process of Elimination

Failed Strategy 1:
Offer short-term, intensive courses
Problems:
Students do not link this to their disciplinary learning
Ecoliteracy concepts quickly forgotten

Failed Strategy 2:
Offer specialized courses of programs (sometimes offered in highschools in BC)
Problems:
“ghettoization” of knowledge
“tokenism” when modules are added to programs

Two ways alternative is described:

1.“curriculum greening”
Ashmole, A. (1996). Curriculum Greening: A Resource Pack for Integrating Environmental Perspectives into Curses (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability). Available at http://www.cecs.ed.ac.uk/greeninfo/gcpack/index2.htm

2. suffuse curriculum with “green issues”
Ali Khan, S. (1991) Greening the Curriculum (London: World Wildlife Federation with the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics).

Haigh, M. (2005). Greening the University Curriculum: Appraising an International Movement. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p31-48.