Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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pp. 2-3
Abstract
Following the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions, this issue of Taproot arrives with the Coalition’s renewed dedication to help further the goals of outdoor education. A new partnership with Sagamore Journals and Applied Health Sciences will serve as a vehicle to enable realization of that commitment by making our publications more widely available. We believe the time is right for a resurgence of outdoor education to take on its rightful and sorely needed role in the advancement of sustainability, including assisting in redefining the concept of sustainability itself. The lack of attachment and allegiance to place, ecological consciousness, and understanding of the socioecological and socioeconomic aspects of consumptive lifestyles continues to undermine the goals of sustainability education. Outdoor education has a critically important role to play if ecological consciousness and land ethics are to move beyond the embryonic stage described by Aldo Leopold in 1946. Determining what pedagogical methods and sociopolitical fixes work best to further sustainability education is seemingly as complex as a medical researcher’s quest to find a cure for cancer. Indeed, the medical researcher’s task may be more doable, but both endeavors are equally important to humankind.
Recommended Citation
Yaple, Charles
(2014)
"From the Editor,"
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 23:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
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https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/taproot/vol23/iss1/2