Why Sustainability Education Needs Pedagogies of Reflection and Contemplation part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
This essay sets out a rationale and framework for pedagogies of reflective and contemplative practice and makes an argument for why they are critically important to sustainability education.

Environmental Trauma and Grief part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
This essay explores the dimensions of environmental grief and trauma, and the strong emotions often raised in our classrooms as we and our students negotiate the dual strands of the despair and hope that are part of teaching and learning about Earth devastation. The essay examines the intersections and differences between this kind of grief and our more commonly understood kinds of bereavement, and draws on the significant work that has been done around how to manage grief in the arena of death and dying.

Bateson's Left Hand: What the Right Hand Can't Say about the Sacred part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
An analysis of why contemplative and religious practices don't map well onto quantitative paradigms of assessment.

Making Space for Mindful Practice in College Classrooms part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
Rationale and approach for initiating mindful practice in a college classroom.

Second Language Learning and Teaching and Reflective Practices part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
Peter Martin, Edmonds Community CollegeDescriptionThere is a noticeable lack of interest in and practice of reflective and contemplative pedagogy in the teaching and learning of second languages in spite of the ...

Voices of Practice: Teaching Yoga, Sustainability, and Justice part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
Karen Gaul, The Evergreen State College Description This essay describes experiments in a practice-based model of teaching at The Evergreen State College. Integrating yogic texts such as the Yoga Sutra with ...

The Practice of Inner Habitat Restoration: A Contemplative Approach To Sustainability Studies part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
Kurt Hoelting, a member of the Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative's "Sustainability and Reflective and Contemplative Practice" faculty learning communityDescriptionThis essay explores "the ...

Contemplation to Action: Role of Strategic Question Asking part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
This page authored by Marie Eaton, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, based the following works: Peavey, Fran. (2002) "Strategic Questioning: An approach to Creating Personal and Social ...

Minding Education's Business in an Evergreen Program: Reflections on Money's Value, Soul's Worth part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
Sarah Williams and Jules Unsel, The Evergreen State College Description This essay describes a year-long, interdisciplinary, and team-taught cultural studies of business program at The Evergreen State College that ...