THIRTEENTH TASK

• Knowledge

1. Can you tell why the basic ecological unit for survival is important?

2. Define the meaning of there is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds?

3. Describe what happened if there is over-use and extraction of fossil fuel?

4. According to the book “Dominion”. How many pigs, cows, calves, turkeys and chickens are slaughtered in America?

5. Can you describe the relation of critical pedagogy and environmental education?

• Comprehension

1. According to the text, what does the author refer when he tells about fundamental ethical principles?

2. Discuss the importance of ecology in terms of educational practices.
3. Describe the role of capitalism in courting death and moving away from the love of life.
4. Interpret and explain the following statement: “There is no ecology of symbiosis in the dominant system today”.
5. Explain the role of education and ecology to stop the current environmental devastation.

• Application

1. How do you interpret transnational technocapitalism?

2. As future in service teacher: How can you apply ecopedagogy theory in your classes?

3. What examples can you give to talk about the indiscriminate exploitation of fossil fuels in Colombia?

4. How teachers can help students to be able to demonstrate to the world, but principally in their homes, that an immediate plan of action is required to safeguard not only the animal species but also human species?

5. What new practices different to the ones mentioned in the text, you could implement as a citizen to contribute in the search for a solution to the environmental catastrophe?

• Analysis

1. Mention the two largest human activities that have caused a significant environmental impact in the last thirty years?

2. In general, due to the boom of fast food in recent years, it is estimated that the number of animals slaughtered has increased. Taking into account this, compare between the number of animals slaughtered ten years ago and animals slaughtered today in your city.

3. In Colombia, how does the government and the Ministry of Education inspect that environmental education policies are applied in schools?

4. How is the environmental catastrophe related to the risk of “human security”?

5. What are some of the most important theories and practices that conform the

Ecopedagogy?

• Synthesis

1.  How to design a useful environmental education program for our society?

2.  Could you combine literacy and environment?
3. What propose Edgar Gonzales G with education for sustainable development?
4. Can you plan a possible solution in order to avoid the Western liberal ideology?
5. How to combine ecojustice and ecoliteracy?

• Evaluation

1. According to the text, 20% of people living in advanced capitalist nations control 80% of the world export markets, meanwhile 20% of people from poorest nations only control 1% of it. What can you judge about it? What connection does it have with the current global ecological devastation?

2. Explain the relationship between neo-colonialist conditions and globalization. What comparison can you make between the past slavery time and the current neo-colonialist conditions? Is there any difference?
3. Judge our education system answering the following question: Does our system promote an outdoor education that engages with social, cultural and environmental themes to stop this ecological devastation? What can we do to change it?
4. Over the last half-century, the modern environmental movement has helped to foster widespread social and cultural transformation. Judge its contribution here in Colombia as a citizen and a teacher, and explain in general what it has done to develop environmental conservation.
5. Environmental education has become isolated as it is rarely integrated across the curriculum. Revise and think about our English program, and explain if environmental education is being implemented, and how we can see it done in its curriculum.