The Nature of Transformation

1. Introduction; Knowing Where We Stand; Standing Where We Know; Process, Context and Participants; Content of This Book; A Few More Things; Who We Are; 2. The Seeds: Education Theories and Principles From Which We Work; Adult Education; Liberal Adult Education; Critical/Progressive Adult Education; Gender Difference and Feminist Adult Education; Arts-Based Adult Education: The Creative Turn; The Arts, Society and Knowledge; The Arts, Adult Education and Learning; Anti-Racist Adult Education: Greening Justice; Experiential Outdoor Learning: Into the Forest and Up the Trees; Environmental Adult Education: Transforming Human-Earth Relations; 3. Inscape, Landscape, Learning and Life: Environmental Workshops at Work; Types and Aims of Community-Based Workshops; Issue-Based Workshops; Process-Based Workshops; Education, Learning and Knowledge; Creating the Learning/Teaching Milieu; Conveying the Purpose; Building in Theory; Knowing Your 'Audience'; Our Story of Racism; The Potential of Humour; Art and Creativity; A Story of the Arts; Valuing Emotion; Time, Timing and Group Size; Valuing Small Group Process; Balancing the Individual and the Collective; Ecological Context and Framework; The Ecological Agenda; The Checklist; 4. The Praxis of Environmental Adult Education; Introductory Activities: Weaving Natural and Social Worlds; Green Activist's Calisthenics; Opening with Nature; Tell us a Story;Connecting to the Earth; Environmental Buses: Travelling Together; Artistic Introduction; Learning Our Nature; The Tree of Education and Learning Practices; Re-Connecting Activities; Re-connecting through Nature and Song; Refreshing Our Memories; Looking Back; Broadening the Analysis of Oppression: Weaving in the Rest of Nature; The Discourse Tree; The River of Learning and Transformation; Exclusion and Inclusion; Building a More Healthy Community Network: The Sun at the Centre; Inscape and Landscape; Living Gender; Reconceptualising Work; Ecological Media Literacy; Learning Through Our Historical Roots: Weaving Our Landscapes From Memory; The Historical Environmental Learning Stream; Personal Environmental Historical Stream; Ecological Storytelling; Variation: Nature as Foe; Women's Ways of Knowing and Being with Nature; Are They Just Words?; Words and Ideas; Altering the Environment by the Book; Theory Matters; Fishpond: Facilitator/Organiser Presentation; Moving Forward: Understanding Past Learning; The River of Theory for Transformation; The Art and Challenge of Critical Thinking; The Theoretical Tree: From Roots to Leaves; Learning And/Through Landscape; Sense Mapping; Variation: Bio-regional community Walk-A-Bout; The Wise Soil; Knowing and Nature; Nature in Mind; Sound Mapping; Sculpturing a Tree; Exploring the Night; The Politics of Consumption; Zen of Consumerism: "Waste R Us"?; Globalisation and Socialisation "R Us?"; Corporations "R Us"?; Human and Ecosystem Health: Food for Thought; The Chemical Stew; Variation; Further Variation; Preparing Our Future; The Shopping Cart Survey; Food Fortune Hunting; Cooking or Ready Made; To Weed or Not to Weed; From Words to Action; Open-Air Environmental Adult Education Market; Variation: The Environmental Adult Education Market; The Art of Educative Action; Variation: Learning for Change; From Discourse to Action; Creativity in Action; Re-Energising the Practitioner: The Mountain of Passion, Power and Purpose; Who is the Expert?; Evaluations and Closure; Coalition Building Through Song, Theatre and Poetry; Final Refl ections; Accomplishments and Challenges; One Word Circle Evaluation; Stringing Ourselves Together; Nature Circle Evaluation; 'Post-it' Evaluations; Written Evaluations; Head, Hands, and Heart; Meditational Closing; Tree of Expectations; Forest of Accomplishments; 5. Global Environmental Adult Education Praxis and Stories; Material Matters; Women Expressing Needs and Ideas Through Banner Painting; The Positive Energy Quilts: The Story of a Visual Protest; Jean (Raging Granny); Ecologial Study Cirlces and Mapping; Environmental Adult Education Study Circles; Green Community Mapping; Experimental Learning in the Outdoors; Experiencing Place; The Ecological Art of Technology; A moving Lens on the Environment; Participatory Video for Empowerment; Art Of/And Communication; Communications Activity: Poster Drawing; A Story of the Developers' Feast; Shadow Puppetry for Environmental Adult Education; Puppetry and the People's Court: A Story From Australia; The Age of Beauty: A Story of Consciousness; Bigfoot Comes in From the Cold: A Story; The Art of Waste; Community and Household Waste Workshops; The Garbage Collection: A Labour and Environment Story; A Show of Hands; 6. Postscript; Resistance and Fear; Silenced Voices: Women and the Rest of Nature; Learning Experience: The Positive, Negative, and Unexpected; Keeping on Track; Follow Nature's Lead: The Virtue and Challenges of Diversity; Not Everyone Thinks Your Workshop is Great; Working as a Team; Further Lessons Learned; Easy Answers?: You Make the Road by Walking; 7. References and Further Resources; Adult Education; Environmental Adult Education and Outdoor Education and Learning; Feminist Adult Education and Gender; Anti-Racist and Aboriginal Education; The Arts, Adult Education and the Media.