{"product_id":"grip-of-past","title":"In the Grip of the Past","description":"\u003cp id=\"u3221-2\"\u003eWith natural systems being exploited at an unsustainable rate, with technologies displacing the need for workers and now even professors, with print-based technologies undermining the intergenerational achievements in the areas of civil liberties and the cultural commons, it is now time for educational reformers to question the idea that students must be educated to become change agents. The industrial culture, now driven by digital technologies, is transforming cultures on a global scale. And they are being transformed in ways that serve the interests of environmentally destructive and profit-oriented corporations. The essays in this collection highlight reforms that teachers can introduce in classrooms––reforms that will enable students to become aware of the traditions within their own cultures that must be renewed in ways that ensure the prospects of future generations. Students must also be challenged to consider the traditions that need to be changed. The tensions between what needs to be conserved and what needs to be changed are the critical issues that will not be raised by the experts working to create a seamless world of digital communication and thought. For reasons explained in the book’s essays, this is the mindset that it habituated to constant change––a mindset with no sense of what is being lost that are sources of community self-sufficiency and empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"u3221-6\"\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs Transformative Learning UNESCO’s Colonizing Agenda for Global Educational Reform?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLanguage Issues that Should be the Central Focus in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToward an Ecologically Informed Paradigm for Thinking about Educational Reforms\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the Political Legacies of Print-Dominated Thinking: Ayn Rand’s Justification of the Pursuit of a Life of Selfishness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow the Coming Online Revolution in Higher Education will Lead to the Elimination of Faculty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs Using Computers in the Classrooms of Oral\/Tradition-Centered Cultures an Affirming Technology or a Trojan Horse?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRethinking Social Justice Issues within an Eco-Justice Conceptual and Moral Framework\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Occupy Movement and the Cultural Commons: A Missed Opportunity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eco-Justice Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47335889731810,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"E-Book","offer_id":47335889764578,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/6240\/0226\/files\/GripOfThePast_cover.jpg?v=1769200245","url":"https:\/\/eco-justice-press.myshopify.com\/products\/grip-of-past","provider":"Eco-Justice Press Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}