Dear Ecofem members:
Please post the following "call for papers" at the end of this
letter on as many lists as you can. Thanks.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
International Ergonomic Association invites you to submit an
abstract of a paper (10 min or 30 min) for a symposium or a special
session for its 13th Triennial congress in Tampere, Finland, June
29 - July 4, 1997. Papers may be in the following area:
Areas for Symposium or Special Session: SHE: Holistic Systems
Approach: Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) are Components of
a system. Their mission is to provide a safe and healthful
environment. These components can not be truly bounded. They act
and interact with each other to accomplish this mission. Holistic
approach looks at this system as a whole and how a change in any
component affects the system, other components, and the mission.
Papers are being solicited.
Jivan Saran, Professor, Central Missouri State University,
Warrensburg, Missouri 64093-5030, USA; Tel/Fax: 1 816 747 8065,
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 5 19:33:15 1996
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 05 Mar 1996 20:36:17 -0600 (CST)
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 20:22:04 -0600 (CST)
Subject: process of ecological consciousness raising
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was intrigued by the recent post about the process of becoming aware of one's
part in the ecological crisis. I would like to respond in a slightly different
way.
I am a college prof (like a lot of others on this list) who regularly teaches
various ecologically relevant anthropology classes -- e.g. next term,
ecological anthropology, and population and culture. As is the usual case with
college courses, I have to ask for papers so I can grade. But I hate it. Asking
students to pump out piles of paper makes my stomach turn. Students generally
feel the same way -- they end up giving me their papers on the backs of other
discarded papers, a practice I encourage.
Lately I have been finding more and more uses for the internet. We have an
eletronic notes conference at Lawrence that I now use for all my classes, where
students respond to outside lectures, readings and class discussion without
turning in papers -- and an added bonus is that they talk to each other in the
process, not merely to me. The notes conferences *engage* the students. So
I've gotten rid of some paper.
I've also started to use the web -- I have some class web pages with links and
resources on the web, but students don't use it enough yet.
But I still have the usual term papers and finals and it's driving me mad. I
want to run paperless classes next term. I think we have to get to that point.
In addition to the notes conferences which are successful, I was thinking about
requiring web page construction (but there is added down time while they learn
to use html). I was also thinking about asking them to do relevant community
service, with the "thinking" part of the activity some kind of production about
the relevancy of their project. The community service project would be the
equivalent of a term paper. But can I ethically require students to do eco
community service? Can I ethically dispense with papers and still get folks to
read and learn what I assign?
This feels a lot like bucking the system but it's the stage I'm at as an
"aware" person. This is my feedback on ecoguilt and ecogrowth but I would
also love suggestions.
Candice Bradley
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 5 20:38:45 1996
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:39:55 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: social work and eco-feminism
looking for ideas, philosophy about the applications of valuing the earth and
feminism in relation to working with people- youth in particular - how
exploring eco-feminism has the potential for healing in people as well as the
planet - i'm a beginner - so maybe this connection has already been
abundantly explored - any direction is appreciated.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 5 22:29:07 1996
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 00:29:55 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: process of ecological consciousness raising
Candice wrote: "But can I ethically require students to do eco
community service? Can I ethically dispense with papers and still get folks
to
read and learn what I assign?"
If you are doing so because you think this process teaches more, then sure
you can ethically require it. By taking your class, students accept certain
things and a practical component need not be unethical. Chemistry classes
have laboratories, etc. However, if your main purpose is to dispense with
paper, then what about having students turn in disks rather than hard copies.
I have done that...it's actually easier to make comments right in the middle
of the text that way. It works quite well.
Just my thoughts
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 5 23:01:26 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 01:17:50 -0500 (EST)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joanne Tinsley)
Subject: Re: process of ecological consciousness raising
As a recent graduate, I can sympathize with you about the
term papers- I had 5 due my last week! Have you thought of having
your students turn in a disk (which they could retrieve at the
beginning of the next semester)? Of course, you still have a lot
of papers to read!
As for the ethics of eco community service, I took a class
called "HIV: a human concern". We were required to perform one
hour of related community service for every week of the class. We
had to volunteer at a service that benefitted HIV+ people (food
bank, HIV-info center, etc.) Students who were homophobic or afraid of
*catching AIDS* could choose the food bank. I think
community service is a really good addition to any class. I hated
my community service (they made me type thousands of address labels
and I *hate* typing!), but I'm glad that I was able to help them.
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