TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Transformative Eco-Education in a Time of Global Ecological Crises, Rebecca Oxford and Jing Lin. PART I: NATURAL DISASTERS AND EMERGENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION. Helping Students Cope with Disasters: Thoughts after the 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake in China, Lin Fu, Rebecca Oxford, and Jing Lin. Stories on the Edge: Transforming Education with Case Studies of Sustainability, Diversity, and Peace, William M. Timpson, Jehan AlAndejani, Maria Gabriel, and Shaun Schafer. Environmental Displacement, English Learners, and Value Creation: Considering Daisaku Ikeda in the East-West Ecology of Education, Jason Goulah. PART II: PRACTICAL, CLASSROOM-BASED, CURRICULUM APPROACHES. Beyond a Carbon Copy Curriculum: Cultivating Stewardship and Awareness through Sustainable Education, Nathan S. Hensley. Cultivation of Social Responsibility Through School Community Gardens, Katie Den Ouden and Bryan Shao-Chang Wee. Project WetKids: An Out-Of-School Program Fostering Citizen Scientists in the Middle Years, Julie Cwikla and Christopher Barry. PART III: INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY INTO COLLEGE TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION. To Teach Like a Mountain, Julia G. Brooks. Changing Science Teacher Education in a Changing Global Climate: Telling a New Story, J. Randy McGinnis, Emily Hestness, and Kelly Riedinger. Necessary Tensions within Present Possibilities: Juxtaposing Voices from the Field to Envision Sustainability Teaching and Learning, Molly Lawrence, Rosalie Romano, Victor Nolet, and Wendy Church. Human-Environmental Relationships as Curriculum Context: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Thomas Nelson and Cynthia Coleman. PART IV: CREATIVE PROGRAMS AND SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY. Greening the Campus, Culture, and Curriculum, Mark Stewart. How to Change: Two Case Studies in Building Resilience, Richard Bell and Karen Bradley. International Service-Learning in Ecotourism and Empowerment of Students and Local Communities, David Urias. PART V: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON ECO-EDUCATION. (S)he Who Will Transform the Universe: Ecological Lessons in Community Education from the Indigenous Americas, Elizabeth Sumida Huaman. Caring for Ourselves, Others, and the Environment: Applying an Indigenous Paradigm in Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa, New Zealand, Jenny Ritchie. Critical Neurophilosophy, Indigenous Wisdom and the CAT-FAWN Connection, Four Arrows. Indigenous Knowledge, Environment, and Education in Africa, Simon Thuranira Taaliu. PART VI: TOWARD A SPIRITUAL, HEALING, AND INTERCONNECTED FUTURE. We Are One Earth: Healing Our Planet Equals Healing Ourselves, Alice Yeager and Sharon Howle. Eco-Fashion: What Educators Can and Should Teach about Sustainable Fashion, Rebecca L. Oxford. Daoism and Chinese Landscape Painting: Implication on Education for Human Nature Harmony, Sun Xiaoyan and Jing Lin. Strengthening Students' Connection to Nature: A Spiritual Perspective, Bob London. About the Contributors.

Presenting powerful ideas for transformative eco-education and demands for a turnaround of many deeply rooted ideas, this book suggests that at this time of ever-increasing ecological crisis, such education is needed more than ever before.