Hopeful, eloquent, and bold, Ecoliterate:
How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence offers
inspiring stories, practical guidance, and an exciting new model of education
that builds — in vitally important ways — on the success of social and
emotional learning by addressing today’s most important ecological issues.
This book reveals how educators can
advance academic achievement; protect the natural world on which we depend; and
foster strength, hope, and resiliency.
Ecoliterate is the result of an innovative collaboration between
Daniel Goleman — bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and
Social Intelligence — and Lisa Bennett and Zenobia Barlow of the Center for
Ecoliteracy.
It tells stories of pioneering
educators, students, and community leaders engaged in issues related to food,
water, oil, and coal in communities from the mountains of Appalachia to a small
village in the Arctic; the deserts of New Mexico to the coast of New Orleans;
and the streets of Oakland, California to the bucolic hills of Spartanburg,
South Carolina.
Ecoliterate also presents five core practices of emotionally and
socially engaged ecoliteracy and a professional development guide.
