How do students demonstrate systems thinking in ecoliteracy education?

- by defining a study object: including relationships, components, time/space boundaries

- by identifying overlapping ecological systems in ecological time: populations/genes/evolution and species/communities

- understand hierarchical context of whole systems: reductionism (mechanisms), comparisons in space time (structure), holism (containing systems)

- understand feedback, causal relations, constraints in ecological context

Berkowitz, A.R., Ford, M.E. & Brewer, C.A. (2005). A framework for integrating ecological literacy, civics literacy, and ecological citizenship in environmental education. In Johnson, E.A. & Mappin, M. Environmental education and advocacy: changing perspectives of ecology and education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 227- 266.