![]() In 2014, the North American Association for Environmental Education and the Kettering Foundation renewed their partnership to develop the Environmental Issues Forums (EIF). One of the goals of the partnership is to increase deliberative public dialogue on climate change and other environmental issues. EIF is modeled on the National Issues Forums (NIF)—a nonpartisan, nationwide network of locally sponsored public issues forums. NIF is rooted in the simple notion that democracy requires an ongoing deliberative public dialogue. People need to come together to reason and talk — to deliberate about common problems. Understand together. Decide together. Act together. Through the partnership with the Kettering Foundation, EIF has involved educators from across the nation, including Sarah R. Johnson from Wild Rose Education, in the development and testing of issue guides and other materials. This publication, Using Environmental Issues Forums (EIF) to Enhance Deliberation: Case Studies documents, through a series of case studies, the journeys taken by these educators. They report on the process of developing locally relevant EIF materials, reflect on their experiences holding forums for a variety of audiences, and report assessment results. Read more ![]()
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1/26/2019 06:58:23 pm
This is fun. I am beginning to like it. I am going to include this in my "library of inspiration". I guess I will be talking about this library a lot today. I did not plan it. It started as just a deep wanting to be alone. I feel the world around me had been very noisy lately. I wish to connect and at the same time disconnect with people thru art. I wish I will have at least one soul understand what is going on in my head right now. I was going to tell that to the world today but suddenly I changed my mind.
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