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Cíl knihy

2.	První část: „Vize“

3.	Druhá část: „Tradice/místo“

4.	Třetí část: „Vztah“

5.	Čtvrtá část: „Činnost“

6.	Práce a výzkumná činnost Donelly Meadows

7.	Závěrečné shrnutí a zhodnocení

"Stone, M. K.; Barlow, Z. (Eds.) Ecological Literacy; Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, The Bioneers Series, 2005, ISBN 978-1-57805-153-3, 276 pages.

The main aims of this book, to reorient the way human beings live on Earth and educating children to their highest capacities, have much common. Both endeavors must be viewed and pursued in context of systems: familial, geographic, ecological, and political. And our efforts to built sustainable communities cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to our mutual benefit. In other words, they must become “ecologically literate“.
Formally is the book divided into four parts. The title of the first part is “Vision“; it contains seven chapters. Their titles are as follows: Decision-Making as if Sustainability Mattered (by Jeannette C. Armstrong), Speaking Nature’s Language: Principles for Sustainability (by Fritjof Capra), Solving for Pattern (by Wendell Berry), The Power of Words (by Ernest Callenbach), Values (by Ernest Callenbach), Fast-Food Values and Slow-Food Values (by Alice Waters) and The Slow School: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (by Maurice Holt). From the point of view of ecological literacy is the most interesting chapter Speaking Nature’s Language: Principles for Sustainability written by Fritjof Capra. Capra analyses in detail the status of natural environment and the recent and future role of the Mankind in this complicated system. He discusses perceptual shifts, implications for education, sustainability in the language of the nature which consists, by the author, from networks, nested systems, interdependence, diversity, cycles, flows, development and dynamic balance. From the point of view of pedagogy are quite interesting the chapters Fast-Food Values and Slow-Food Values written by Alice Waters (which discusses possibility of healthier children’s lifestyle and compares advantages and disadvantages of recent fast-food systems at American high schools and intended slow-food systems) and The Slow School: An Idea Whose Time Has Come written by Maurice Holt (which compares recent „fast schools“ where the educational aims must be obtained as fast as possible and the idea of „slow schools“, where students could obtain their education in slower, for children more comfortable ways; this essay shows the system-thinking perceptual shift from quantity to quality that Fritjof Capra describes in the chapter Speaking Nature’s Language: Principles for Sustainability."

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