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“We must learn to not only read the word
but to read the world.” -- Paulo Freire
Earth Teach Network
Telling the story of our changing planet
-We are a collaborative community of educators, technologists, and environmental organizations with a shared mission to develop data-based learning resources and tools supporting place-based learning and community-based science.
-Our products and programs are based on the transformative learning models and theories found in ecopedagogy, climate justice, and culturally oriented knowledge systems that address current environmental and social challenges.
-Community participants learn how to be critical thinkers and to show how they can use their own data and observations to tell stories that promote awareness and inspire plans of action.
Education should promote conscientizacao (critical awareness). Paulo Freire (the thought leader of critical pedagogy) advocates that students should be able to “read the world” (Freire & Macedo, 1987, 1998 as cited by Gruenewald 2003). While it is important to provide students with written and media sources for global and historical context, we should also encourage students to “read the world” -- to be critical observers and change-makers in response to observed needs in local communities and environments.
Earth Teach Network AI generated image. (CC BY-SA)
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