Curriculum as an Ecological Text: Ideas about Nature

1.  What are characteristics of good teaching?

Nature, ideas about nature,

Evolution, Entropy, Wilderness, Weather Systems, Systems, Sustainability , Environment, Light, Romanticism, Intuition , Spirit, Landscaper, Entropy, Urbanity, Utopia, Dystopia, Youth, Time, Ephemeral, Motivation, Evolution, Civilization, Escape, Landscape , Natural History, Roots Culture, Homeland, “Green” , Acadia , Survival, Wilderness, Landscape vs Urbanity,

Connecting traditions to contemporary practices, how cultural ideas about nature shape our understanding and how new understandings are influencing art and culture. I want to see how you we weave traditional art making practices with contemporary practices.

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    What are some ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS we could ask?

What is progress? Can art change the world?

How does culture construct “nature” and our relationships to “nature”?

How does art and visual culture influence or shape ideas about nature?

What is the opposite of nature?

How has our relationship to nature changed?

How are we part of nature and how are we separate from nature?

How is civilization progress?  How is civilization not progress?

How do people connect with places and what are our relationships to the places where we live? What are sacred places and how do they become sacred? 

What ideas about nature and our relationship to nature are revealed or hidden in collections?