Journal-Portfolio Part 1 - Thoughts, Questions, & Reflections

Part 1 of this Journal-Portfolio will cover thoughts, comments, questions, and critical thinking about readings and activities on EfSD and relate its principals to events from everyday life, global current events, art pieces, nature, science, and possibly other things that spark an interest as I go.

Moksha Funk and Beatriz Miranda's Where the Sidewalk Ends Interpretation.

The purpose of Part 1 is to reflect on the process of understanding of EfSD and catch interesting focal points that arise in the meantime to create my own framework for an EfSD program later on.

Posts in Part 1 will flow by generally including bits and pieces of the following points. However, their overall structure will chronologically address each point in order to build up my holistic understanding of EfSD and eventually reach Part 2 of this project. 

• Reflect on: thoughts, comments questions, & critical reflections about EfSD
• Address how: EfSD confronts my values, assumptions, and profesional knowledge. 
• Consider: the choices, decisions, and difficulties, such as limitations and actual value, faced when developing a framework.

Hit the jump to see source of this Journal-Portfolio project framework:

Living Change - Documenting Good Practice in Education for Sustainability

___Cite___

Tillbury, D. & Ross, K. 2006, 'Living Change: Good Practice in Education for Sustainability in NSW', Macquarie University, Sydney and Nature Conservation Council, NSW

Post #1

Starting is the hardest part...

I'm so immersed in academics that it's hard to let myself free write. That ain't right.
Muuuuussstttt accc-cessss t-t-truuuee se-se-self!!!!
(Hjbptmuh...akk! ... ø_ø.  ahhhhh! #* &™@!!!)

Phew...  Here I am.

Piece by: Moksha Funk

This blog is an exercise that I'm starting as a grad student for my Masters in Environmental Studies. Though it's for a wonderful class (that allows one to be creative FINALLY!) I hope to continue it for a long long time, to add my own twist to everything as to never let myself be bogged down by the man ever again!  ...I've had enough of you 'man'
       *neurotic 'Kramer-esque' mocking gesture*.

This is a constant reflection process on encounters throughout life with art, nature, science, and people.

                    ...this is a place to express abstract ideas
                    and fulfill curiosities.

Since, as of late, I am convinced that at least in some sense it is my duty to be an 'educator' or an 'idea spreader' (as I'd rather think of it), the goal of this endeavor is to learn to communicate and innovate ideas better by questioning values, detangling ideas, fostering creativity, and growing professionally.

Vetruvian Man by Leonardo DaVinci. A characteristic symbol of the enlightenment during the renaissance period. 

In beginning a project to better understand
Education for Sustainable Development (EfSD)
and create my own framework that can be used to plan EfSD programs,
this blog will initially follow a 'Journal-Portfolio' project outline inspired by Tilbury and Ross (2006).

*oh yes, and if you click around you might find some easter eggs, if your lucky. ;)

              Cite:        
         Tillbury, D. and Ross, K 2006, 'Living Change: Documenting good practice in Education for     
         Sustainability in NSW', Macquarie University, Sydney, and Nature Conservation Council, NSW.