• Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education



  • Offering a fresh approach to bringing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems design solution with potential to address myriad interrelated social, ecological, and educational issues.




  • Ecological Education in Action



  • Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, and the Environment [Paperback]Gregory A. Smith (Editor), Dilafruz R. Williams (Editor)


Two strands of research guide the scholarship of Dilafruz Williams

  • Environmental Education/Sustainability Education
  • Civic Engagement/Service-Learning

4 inches of living soil: Teaching biodiversity in the Learning Gardens. A photo-essay.

Williams, D. R.

http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/content/4-inches-of-living-soil-teaching-biodiversity-in-the-learning-gardens-a-photo-essay_2012_03/

Living soil and sustainability education: Linking pedagogy and pedology. Journal of Sustainability Education 2.

Williams, D. R. & Brown

http://journalofsustainabilityeducation.org/ojs/index.php/jse/article/view/36

Introduction – Re-engaging Culture and Ecology

Williams, D.
As an introductory chapter to the edited volume, this piece criticizes public information processes on environmental problems that instill fear and cynicism. It challenges and redefines sustainability in a way that gives hope rather than despair and provides alternative strategies to encourage sustainable living through education.
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Political Engagement and Service Learning – A Gandhian Perspective

Williams, D.
This article highlights what the service-learning movement can learn from Gandhian political philosophy. Service learning must have elements of political and societal transformations. It discusses political disengagement in the U.S., and how the Gandhian notion of service and political engagement informs how universities could work with communities.
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From Margin to Center: Initiation and Development of an Environmental School from the Ground Up

Williams, D. & Taylor, S.
This piece covers the history, philosophy, and recent developments of Portland’s Environmental Middle School. While describing imaginative new curricula and pedagogical methods, it connects that curriculum with the pedagogy of place in Portland, Oregon.
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