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How can we create a just, healthy, and humane world? What is the path to developing sustainable energy, food, transportation, production, construction, and other systems? What's the best strategy to end poverty and ensure that everyone has equal rights? How can we slow the rate of extinction and restore ecosystems? How can we learn to resolve conflicts without violence and treat other people and nonhuman animals with respect and compassion? The answer to all these questions lies with one underlying system -- schooling. To create a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world, we must reimagine education and prepare a generation to be solutionaries -- young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to create a better future. This book describes how we can (and must) transform education and teaching; create such a generation; and build such a future.
About the Author
is the co-founder and present of the (IHE) . In addition to creating the M.Ed. and certificate programs for IHE and leading IHE's Sowing Seeds and MOGO (Most Good) workshops, Zoe Weil is the author of (2004) for educators, (2003) for parents, and (January 2009) . She has also written books for young people, including (2007) about 12-year-old activists inspired by an eccentric substitute teacher who's really a humane educator, and (2004) . She has written numerous articles on humane education and humane living and has appeared frequently on radio and television. Zoe speaks regularly at universities, conferences, schools, churches, and in communities around the United States and Canada. She has also served as a consultant on humane education to people and organizations around the world. Zoe received a Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School (1988) and a Master's in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania (1983) . She is certified in Psychosynthesis counseling, a form of psychotherapy which relies upon the intrinsic power of each person's imagination to promote growth, creativity, health, and transformation. Zoe lives with her husband, teenage son, and several rescued animals at the Institute for Humane Education in Surry, Maine.
