Rethinking School Lunch
Exploration of a systems framework to address the crisis in childhood obesity, provide nutrition education, and teach ecological knowledge
Faculty: Janet Brown and practitioners in food service and curricular innovation.
November 6-7, 2007; Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley, California

Previous 2007 Seminars

Dialogues on Education for Sustainable Living
February 4-8, 2007
With Fritjof Capra, Joanna Macy, and CEL educators

At the Crossroads: Education in an Age of Ecological Uncertainty
March 18-22, 2007
With Jeannette Armstrong and En'owkin Centre colleagues

About Center for Ecoliteracy Seminars

These seminars present a distillation of conceptual foundations that guide the Center for Ecoliteracy and lessons learned from a decade of experience with diverse projects that are creatively putting those concepts into practice.

Seminar participants will:

• Learn about modeling human communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms

• Practice systems thinking that is needed to understand ecological processes — thinking that entails shifts in perception, which lead to different ways to teach and to organize society

• Explore sustainability as a property of whole networks, or communities

• Study the practices of human communities that have lived sustainably for centuries

• Investigate the design of learning communities that practice principles of sustainable living by encouraging shared leadership, integrating experiential learning with academic curricula, and grounding themselves in a sense of place.

The seminars are designed to be learning communities in which participants will experience and practice, as well as discuss, basic principles of education for sustainability.

Because we have learned that teams are more effective in changing systems, participants are encouraged to attend as teams from organizations or school districts.

The faculty includes internationally recognized thinkers and practitioners who are highly influential in shaping the theory and practices of the Center.