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C.A. Bowers
C. A.
Bowers holds a Ph. D. from
the University of
California, has taught at
the University of Oregon and
Portland State University,
and was granted emeritus
status in 1998. He has
published more than eighty
articles, eleven chapters in
other books, and fourteen of
his own books. His most
recent books include:
Elements of a Post-Liberal
Theory of Education (1987),
The Cultural Dimensions of
Educational Computing:
Understanding the
Non-Neutrality of Technology
(1988); (with David
Flinders) Responsive
Teaching: An Ecological
Approach to Classroom
Patterns of Language,
Culture, and Thought (1990);
Education, Cultural Myths,
and the Ecological
Crisis:Toward Deep Changes
(1993); Critical Essays on
Education, Modernity, and
the Recovery of the
Ecological Imperative
(1993); Educating for an
Ecologically Sustainable
Culture: Rethinking Moral
Education,Creativity,
Intelligence,and Other
Modern Orthodoxies (1995);
The Culture of Denial: Why
the Environmental Movement
Needs a Strategy for
Reforming Universities and
Public Schools (1997); Let
Them Eat Data: How Computers
Affect Education, Cultural
Diversity, and the Prospects
of Ecological Sustainability
(2000); Educating for
Eco-Justice and Community
(2001). Detras de la
Aparienciia: Hacia la
descolonizacion de al
educacion (2002).
He has two book manuscripts
under review: Conserving in
this Era of Ecological
Uncertainties: Rethinking
the Ideological and
Educational Basis of
Sustainability; and
Rethinking the Ideas of Paul
Freire in an Era of Global
Warming and Post-Colonial
Thinking (which he is
co-editing with Frederique
Apffel-Marglin)
He has been invited to speak
at 30 universities in the
United States and 26
universities in other parts
of the world--including the
University of Trondheim,
University of Zagreb,
University of Queensland,
University of Cape Town,
Rhodes University, York
University, University of
Toronto, and the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. He
was recently invited to
lecture in 5 German cities.
He was also asked by
Vice-President Al Gore to be
the featured speaker at a
dinner/seminar (held at the
Gore residence) on the
influence of metaphorical
thinking on environmental
and technology policies.
He was one of 6 western
scholars, along with the
former Chinese Minister of
Culture, invited to speak at
the International Congress
on Culture and Humanity in
the New Millennium sponsored
by the government of Hong
Kong and the Chinese
University of Hong Kong.
He gave the John Dewey
Memorial Lecture in 1982
In 1992, he received the
"Outstanding Environmental
Professor Award" from the
Center for Environmental
Studies at the University of
Oregon.
His writings have been
translated into Korean,
Chinese, Japanese, and
Spanish.
He is currently Adjunct
Professor of Environmental
Studies at the University of
Oregon.
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