Graduation Year
Spring 2012
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Environmental Analysis
Second Department
Special Majors
Reader 1
Hans Rindisbacher
Reader 2
Brinda Sarathy
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© 2012 Lindon N. Pronto
Abstract
Rooted deep in Germany's past is its modern socio-political grounding for environmental respect and sustainability. This translates into individual and collective action and extends equally to the economic and policy realm as it does to educational institutions. This thesis evaluates research conducted in Germany with a view to what best approaches are transferable to the United States liberal arts setting. Furthermore, exemplary American models of institutional sustainability and environmental education are explored and combined with those from abroad to produce a blueprint and action plan fitting for the American college and university.
Recommended Citation
Pronto, Lindon N., "Exploring German and American Modes of Pedagogical and Institutional Sustainability: Forging a Way into the Future" (2012). Pitzer Senior Theses. 21.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/21
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Comments
This thesis was a joint-discipline project completed for the German Department at Pomona College, and the intercollegiate Environmental Analysis Program of the Claremont Colleges.
This research is affiliated with the Bernard Field Station.