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The Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to education for sustainable living. ==About== Located in Berkeley, California, the Center for Ecoliteracy's stated mission is to support and advance education for sustainable living.〔(Center for Ecoliteracy: What We Do )〕 It was founded in 1995 by philanthropist Peter Buckley, physicist/author Fritjof Capra, and think tank director Zenobia Barlow to apply ecological, systems thinking principles to K-12 education.〔("Solving for Pattern: The STRAW Project." ''Whole Earth,'' Spring 2001. )〕 The Center for Ecoliteracy has supported projects in habitat restoration, school gardens and cooking classes, partnerships between farms and schools, school food transformation, and curricular innovation.〔(Wiserearth.org )〕 Together with the Chez Panisse Foundation and Berkeley Unified School District, the Center for Ecoliteracy implemented the School Lunch Initiative to provide local, seasonal, and sustainable meals for students as well as experiential learning in gardens, kitchen classrooms, and cafeterias.〔(Dashka Slater. "The Whole Meal." ''California Magazine,'' May/June 2007. )〕 Using a systems approach, the Rethinking School Lunch program offers a planning strategy for revamping food service programs.〔(Sarah Henry. "New guide aims to improve school food beyond Berkeley." Berkeleyside, November 11, 2011. )〕 The Center for Ecoliteracy’s initiative, Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability, aims to provide a framework based on four guiding principles: “Nature is Our Teacher,” “Sustainability is a Community Practice,” “The Real World is the Optimal Learning Environment,” and “Sustainable Living is Rooted in a Deep Knowledge of Place.”〔(A Better Education. "Ecoliteracy - An Interview with Lisa Bennett.” )〕 It identifies four potential pathways to schooling for sustainability—food, campus, community, and teaching and learning.〔Michael K. Stone/Center for Ecoliteracy. ''Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability.'' Watershed Media, 2009.〕 In August 2011, the Center for Ecoliteracy released ''Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools,'' a downloadable cookbook and professional development guide for school food service professionals. It introduces the concept of the 6-5-4 School Lunch Matrix, "based on six dishes students know and love, five ethnic flavor profiles, and four seasons."〔Georgeanne Brennan and Ann M. Evans. ''Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools.'' Center for Ecoliteracy/Learning in the Real World, 2011.〕 ''Cooking with California Food'' is part of the Center's statewide initiative, Rethinking School Lunch: California Food for California Kids, which aims to add more fresh, local, and healthy foods to school meals.〔("Center for Ecoliteracy: California Food for California Kids." YouTube. Retrieved 2012-10-15. )〕 In collaboration with bestselling author Daniel Goleman, the Center for Ecoliteracy published ''Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence'' in fall 2012. The book profiles educators, activists, and students who embody this integration of intelligences as they address food, water, and energy issues around the world. It also includes a professional development guide and five practices of "engaged ecoliteracy": developing empathy for all forms of life, embracing sustainability as a community practice, making the invisible visible, anticipating unintended consequences, and understanding how nature sustains life.〔Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett, and Zenobia Barlow. ''Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence.'' Jossey-Bass, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Center for Ecoliteracy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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