“We must learn to not only read the word but to read the world.” -- Paulo Freire

Earth Teach Network

Telling the story of our changing planet

-We are a collaborative community of educators, technologists, and environmental organizations with a shared mission to develop data-based learning resources and tools supporting place-based learning and community-based science.

-Our products and programs are based on the transformative learning models and theories found in ecopedagogy, climate justice, and culturally oriented knowledge systems that address current environmental and social challenges.

-Community participants learn how to be critical thinkers and to show how they can use their own data and observations to form real plans of action.

Education should promote conscientizacao (critical awareness). Paulo Freire (the thought leader of critical pedagogy) advocates that students should be able to “read the world” (Freire & Macedo, 1987, 1998 as cited by Gruenewald 2003). While it is important to provide students with resources that provides a global and historical context we should also encourage students to “read the world” -- to be observers and changemakers in response to observed changes and needs in local communities.

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