13th TASK

Knowledge

1. Define with your own words what is Critical Ecoliteracy
2. Name the environmental education’s goals.
3. List the three types of Environmental literacy.
4. When is expected not to be extant commercial fishery left active in the world?
5. Tell what matrix domination is.

Comprehension

1. What consequences can you predict all these global warmings can bring apart from the ones mentioned in the text.
2. How do you associate Environmental literacy and Ecoliteracy?
3. How do you interpret the next sentence “There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds”?
4. Why do you think environmental education is important?
5. “We face nothing less than the unprecedented transformation and domination of the planet” How do you interpret the sentence above?

Application

1. How does the social transformations affect the global ecology?
2. Illustrate with your own words the Bateson’s stantent that says “There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds”.
3. Illustrate with five examples how the human production and consumption has culles organic habitats and species.
4. Demonstrate how the environmental education may help to create a more ecological and suitable world.
5. Identify the goals of environmental education.

Analysis

1. Why is  an environmental education required in every society?
2. Explain with your own words the phrase by Michele Archie: “using the environment to boost academic performance, increase student motivation, and enhance environmental literacy”.
3. What can you infer from this quote: “Until today, Critical Pedagogy almost completely disregarded not just the cosmopolitics aspects of ecological termins in terms of threats to present and future life conditions of all humanity. It disregarded the fundamental philosophical and existential challenges of subject relations, in which ‘nature’ is not conceived as a standing reserve either for mere human consumption or as a potential source of dangers, threats, and risks”.
4. Select two of the most important concepts of the text and explain them.
5. How does Rudolf Bahro arrive at the conclusion that most institution environment protection “is in reality and indulgence to protect the deterministic structure”,  which removes concern and responsibility from people so that “ the process of learning are slowed down”.

Synthesis

1. What changes would you make in your life to solve  some of the environmental problems?
2. Suppose you could develop a global economic model that is friendly to the planet and does not affect its natural development. What model would you think of?
3. What could be done to maximize environmental education in Colombia?
4. Can you think of an original way to promote Ecoliteracy among young people?
5. If you had the opportunity to decide on the use of animals for commercial purposes: would you implement the creation of places such as zoos or aquariums? Would you support the use of animal skins in the fashion industry?

Evaluation

1. Explain each one of the environmental literacy and select the most important according to your criteria
2. Judge the following statement and support your position by arguments:

I disagree with the anti-globalization protestors who suggest that poor countries should somehow be saved from development by keeping their doors closed to trade. I think that is a recipe for continuing their poverty, not erasing it. More open markets would give the world's poorest nations more chances to grow and prosper.

3. Make a comparison between environmental literacy and  ecoliteracy and explain how they differ.
4. Could you recommend some strategies to solve the social problems presented in the text? persuade your readers to use the strategies you proposed.
5. make a summary of  Bower's theory presented on page 536.