Gaia Education

The Gaia Education Teacher's Guide

The Gaia Education Teacher's Guide is a practical manual for sustainability teachers, from universities and classrooms, to ecovillage education courses, or for implementation in your own community. GaiaEducation_TeachersGuide In this 333 page digital manual you will find a comprehensive guide packed with innovative materials, approaches, and tools that have been developed in and tested by sustainable communities and transition settings worldwide. Topics of this guide include: Social, Ecological, Worldview and Economic dimensions of sustainability. Creating community & embracing diversity. Decision making, and circular leadership from power over to power with. Economy: making the shift, plugging leaks in local economy, local currencies. Appropriate use of natural resources, urban agriculture and food resilience. Transformation of consciousness. And a lot more! This guide is an expanded part of the Ecovillage Design Education curriculum developed by Gaia Education, which has been taught over 150 times to over 5,000 people in 34 countries on 6 continents since 2005. This guide is also an official contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development- UNDESD 2005-2014. Module One: Creating Community and Fostering Social Justice Module Two: Governance: Group Dynamics and Decision Making Module Three: Power, Rank, Privilege, and Leadership Module Four: Art, Social Transformation, and Media Literacy Module Five: Urban Networks and Social Activism