Blog Action Day 2009: The challenge for art education
source: http://meatandmarginalia.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/blog-action-day-2009-the-challenge-for-art...
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What is required [...] is an art education that is deeply integrated with—and thus able to respond meaningfully to—environmental concerns, an art education that configures a space from which students become aware of and respond to the challenge of sustainability—that is, the challenge of “sustaining not economic growth, development, market share, or competitive advantage, but the entire web of life on which our long-term survival depends”—a space in which students become ecologically literate, which, according to Fritjof Capra, means “understanding the basic principles of ecology and being able to embody them in the daily life of human communities“.
