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Moïse, Hélène M.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has" (Margaret Mead). As we can no longer ignore the emergency of the wounds we have inflicted on the health of our ecosystems, there has been a growing concern to integrate environmental issues in the school curriculum. The United Nations declared 2005-2014 to be the decade for Education for Sustainable Development, which intends to bring to the forefront the role of all teachers to integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development in the classroom. Teachers play a crucial role in empowering students to become environmentally responsible. Based on the work in New Literacies, digital literacies, language and identity, and indigenous knowledge, this Capstone paper, which is particularly concerned with the state of the worlds' fresh water supplies, explores how a multimodal curriculum can be adapted to integrate learning for environmental change. The curriculum (The Wonder of Water) developed as part of the Connection to Practice component of this project was inspired by my involvement with the organization Learning for a Sustainable Future, which aims to educate teachers on the meaning and importance of engaging students in sustainable action projects. This curriculum will demonstrate how digital literacies and Education for a Sustainable Development can come together to create empowering learning experience for students that can enable them to add unforeseen colors to the landscape of ideas and to take actions to heal our worlds' water.

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University of British Columbia. LLED 590

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0078009

Education, Faculty of; Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of

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