Climate Change. Species Extinction. Deforestation. Toxic Waste. For more than a century, Americans have quarreled over the causes and consequences of environmental decline.

"My current research?reveals that between?the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries,?educators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and others systematically indoctrinated young people into settler-colonial political, economic, and cultural values under the guise of learning about the natural world. Why have Americans long been in conflict over the environment? They were taught mostly?through?nature rather than?for?it.

In this talk, I will discuss the origins of his book project as well as the challenges associated with writing an educational history that examines learning both inside and out of formal institutions."

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Charles Dorn is an educational historian and the?Barry N. Wish Professor of Social Studies?at Bowdoin College (Maine, USA). His work has appeared in?History of Education Quarterly,?Southern African Review of Education, and?Diplomatic History, and has been featured in?Time?and?Fortune Magazines?and on National Public Radio’s?Throughline. Dorn is the recipient of two?U.S. State Department Fulbright Awards and a?Landhaus Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,?Ludwig Maximilian 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 (Munich, Germany).?He is the author of?For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America?(Cornell 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press, 2017) and, with co-author Randall Curren,?Patriotic Education in a Global Age?(伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Chicago Press, 2018). His current project?explores the history of environmental education in the United States between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.