Ecojustice Education

Ecojustice Education main "point is that educational effort of substance will be required to get the most out of that small set of ideas—agrarianism, the commons, no-growth economics, and the maximum wage—that hold the greatest promise for solving the world’s most vexing problems." It talks about different economic theories that could result in an economy that is better for the environment. Most of the theories are not realistic, for instance a maximum wage. Few people will vote for that, and if it ever happened, people would find ways around it. Other theories involve creating utopias. "Today, any vision of what a society might become that does not look very much like what society currently is, is quickly dubbed “utopian,” and therefore impossible to achieve." These utopian societies involved common meetings in which every person could speak and have input on what would happen in the community if they lived there. Obviously people that own more of the land, and more money, will have more say than the beggar or town drunk.

This text argues that project based learning and community based curriculum are the solution to many of the global problems. These education methods steer away from making as much money as possible and takes away putting one's self first. Instead of leaning self fulfillment by going to school making god grades and going to college to get a job making a ton of money, they learn about the fulfillment of helping others. These ways also involve immediate learning. Everyday a new skill is learned, instead of learning one chapter for a few weeks and testing and then deciding if they learned something or not. These ideas could work, however I believe it is still important to learn different basic skills in the classroom and then maybe going out and learning to apply it.