One of the questions that has kept me awake at night is… How do you foster a steward? Whose responsibility is this anyway? Perhaps like a reversed telescope, environmental education is being looked at in the wrong way. Instead of dealing with reactions to problems and trying to solve environmental issues as they arise, it may be worthwhile to consider what sort of citizens should populate the Earth. Or, as Simeon Ogonda, a youth development leader from Kenya, asks: “Many of us often wonder what kind of planet we’re leaving behind for our children. But few ask the opposite: what kind of children are we leaving behind for our planet?” Raising environmentally engaged citizens requires more than just a few educators participating in this work. Rather, it is a collective responsibility: each of us has a stake in fostering the stewards of tomorrow.
In Peterborough Ontario, we are working on a stewardship framework for education, anchored in Indigenous ways of knowing that involves an entire community: parents, grandparents, educators, schools, organizations, community leaders, health professionals, municipal officials and businesses. It is called “The Pathway to Stewardship.”
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
August 2017
Categories |