Ideological, Cultural, and Linguistic Roots of Educational Reforms to Address the Ecological Crisis The Selected Works of C.A. (Chet) Bowers

Contents 1. Where to Start in Addressing the Cultural/Linguistic Roots of the Ecological Crisis: Challenging the Misconceptions Underlying Modern Consciousness 2. The Cultural Aspects of the Ecological Crisis (A) An Ecological Paradigm for Understanding Language Issues 3. The Relational and Emergent Nature of Cultural and Natural Ecologies 4. Language Issues that should be the Central Focus in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies 5. Why the George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Theory of Metaphorical Thinking Fails to Address the Linguistic Issues Related to the Ecological Crisis 6. The Cultural Construction and Uses of Data (B) The Cultural Commons 7. The Political Economy of the Cultural Commons and the Nature of Sustainable Wealth 8. The Cultural Mediating Role of the Teacher/Professor-Across the Disciplines 9. Educational Reforms in an Era of Global Warming and Digital Insecurities (C) Clarifying the Difference between Individual and Ecological Intelligence 10. The Challenge Facing Educational Reformers: Making the Transition from Individual to Ecological Intelligence 11. Gregory Bateson's Contribution to Understanding Ecological Intelligence 12. Rethinking Social Justice Issues within an Eco-Justice Conceptual and Moral Framework (D) Critique of Technology 13. Educational Reforms that Contribute to Democratizing the Uses of Digital Technologies 14. The Digital Revolution and the Unrecognized Problem of Linguistic Colonization 15. Has the Authority of Data Consigned Wisdom to the Junk-Heap of History? 16. Is the Digital Revolution Driven by an Ideology? 17. Is the Digital Revolution Sowing the Seeds of a Techno-Fascist Future?