[van-announce] Fwd: Summer 2003 Courses in Social Ecology -- please circulate

[jillian deri]

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> Popular Education for a Free Society
> Summer 2003 Courses in Social Ecology
> 
> The Institute for Social Ecology (ISE), located amid
> central Vermont's
> rolling mountains, has been a center for education
> and action working
> with the ideas of social ecology since the 1970s. 
> The ISE and its
> programs also serve as a forum for serious dialogue
> among ecological,
> social justice, and anti-capitalist activists, as a
> laboratory for new
> ecological technologies, and as a resource for
> community groups around
> the world.
> 
> In its twenty-eighth year, the ISE's internationally
> acclaimed Summer
> Institute programs presents both a comprehensive
> exploration of the
> critical problems we face and a revolutionary
> reconstructive perspective
> focusing on the process of ecologically oriented
> social change. It
> provides an integrated college-level curriculum in
> each of its programs.
> 
> The Summer Institute consists of four distinct
> programs:
> 
> * Sustainable Design, Building, & Land Use
> (http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=145)
> Using the Institute for Social Ecology's 50-acre
> site as a laboratory,
> this program provides instruction in permaculture,
> organic agriculture,
> community design, ecological building, and forest
> ecology, while
> fostering a critical understanding of the social and
> political contexts
> in which these alternatives may be applied.
> 
> * Arts, Media, Activism, & Social Change
> (http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=146)
> This fourteen-day program is intended for artists,
> activists, and media
> makers who wish to create and examine socially
> engaged art and media
> projects. Over the course of the program, students
> will receive hands-on
> experience and exposure to a wide array of activist
> art and media,
> including spoken word, culture jamming, puppetry,
> audio and video
> production, radio production, and web-based media
> and art.
> 
> * Ecology and Community
> (http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=147)
> This program is intended as an intensive educational
> experience in the
> field of social ecology. This interdisciplinary,
> college-level program
> explores social ecology, nature philosophy,
> community development,
> political theory, social movements and activism,
> popular education,
> radical agriculture, capitalism and globalization,
> racism, feminism, and
> more.
> 
> * Theoretical Inquiries in the Age of Globalization
> (http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=148)
> This eight-day intensive focuses on areas such as
> philosophy, social and
> political theory, and history as part of a scholarly
> inquiry into the
> "age of globalization." By theoretically exploring
> the past as well as
> the present, this continuing studies program hopes
> to deepen students'
> understanding of dynamic social phenomena such as
> capitalism,
> statecraft, racism, and the devastation of the
> natural world, to name a
> few. This intensive is intended both to rekindle
> students' desire for
> further study and offer intellectual inspiration for
> ongoing activist work.
> 
> 
> 
> The Institute for Social Ecology was established in
> 1974 and
> incorporated in 1981 as an independent institution
> for the purposes of
> education, research, and outreach in the field of
> social ecology.  For
> over a quarter of a century, ISE has inspired
> individuals involved in
> numerous social change movements to work toward a
> directly democratic,
> liberatory, and ecological society.  The educational
> programs of the
> Institute for Social Ecology have served more than
> 2,000 students around
> the world.
> 
> For further information on our programs, contact the
> ISE by email at
> info at social-ecology.org, telephone 1 (802) 454-8493,
> or visit our web
> site at http://www.social-ecology.org/.
> 
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