Chapter 10: Mobilizing the Just Ecological Society

Question 1

The Tbilisi Declaration

Answer 1

defined environmental education as a learning process that increases people’s knowledge and awareness about the environment and develops the skills and expertise to address the challenges.

Question 2

Frame analysis

Answer 2

describes top-down methods of knowledge cultivation; monologic ways of cultivation depend on framing issues so that people will respond to them as the framer desires

Question 3

Paulo Freire said that if we want a humane, liberatory education based on trust, the main approach should be:

Answer 3

conscientization — the building not of head-nodding agreement but of critical consciousness in dialogue with the world.

Question 4

What is Hardin’s allegory “Tragedy of the Commons” better characterized as?

Answer 4

the tragedy of individualism.

Question 5

The problem of collective action

Answer 5

In a world of self-interested actors, how can we get people to cooperate for their own benefit?