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Guide to the Healing Earth Introduction

Part 6 Chapter Structure and Website Features

Chapter Structure Each HE chapter follows the same format: I. Chapter Topic Learning Objectives II. Chapter Topic Case Study III. Chapter Topic and Science A. Fundamental Scientific Knowledge for the Chapter Topic B. Impact of Society on the Chapter Topic IV. Chapter Topic and Ethics A. Moral Principles and the Chapter Topic B. Moral Goals and the Chapter Topic C. Moral Virtues and the Chapter Topic V. Chapter Topic and Spirituality

A. Personal Beliefs and the Chapter Topic B. ‘Sacred’ Experience and the Chapter Topic C. World Religions and the Chapter Topic D. Christianity and the Chapter Topic

VI. Chapter Topic and Action A. Actions in the World

B. Actions in the Community VII. Chapter Topic Reflection Questions and Explorations VIII. Chapter Topic Additional Resources

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Another way to look at the above structure is in terms of schematic questions. The chart on the next page is meant to assist you in thinking about each chapter in terms of the large questions it addresses. The Roman numerals in the chart correspond with those of the above chapter outline.

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Website Features The best way to explore the website features discussed in the HE Introduction is to return to the HE opening page and explore. Click on ‘supplement’ and ‘about us’ and investigate each drop down item.

You may wish to spend some time thinking about how you might invite your students to use the HE map feature that is accessible under the ‘supplement’ box. This exciting feature of HE allows students to explore environmental science through Earth visuals that link to issues in each chapter and are further located on a world map in a ‘Goggle Earth’ format. This visual, non-linear way of exploring environmental science communicates the fundamental connection between all of Earth’s environmental challenges. [LS 42: “Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another.”] In addition to English, you and your students will have the option of reading Healing Earth in Spanish or French when these translations are completed. Other language translations will be coming in future months. Also, check the bulletin board at the bottom of the opening page to see current Healing Earth news--who is using Healing Earth around the world, event announcements, and dates for live lectures coming up through the Healing Earth website.

About Us Supplement

Items here

include maps,

graphs, charts,

conversion tables,

and glossary.

Students

can email

the authors and

learn about

Healing Earth’s

history.

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Citations

1. Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., "Depth, Universality, and Learned Ministry: Challenges to Jesuit Higher

Education Today", April 23, 2010, at

http://www.sjweb.info/documents/ansj/100423_Mexico%20City_Higher%20Education%20Tod

ay_ENG.pdf

2. Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat, Healing a Broken World, Promotion Justitiae, np. 106,

2011/2 at http://www.sjweb.info/documents/sjs/pjnew/PJ106ENG.pdf

Photo Credits/Sources

1. NASA, accessed at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17_with_white_background.jpg Tuskegee, By Uploaded by Taco325i [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; accessed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, accessed at http://www.stpauls.com.au/product/2874 Ecosystem Services, accessed at http://www.greenfacts.org/en/ecosystems/figtableboxes/203-1-intro.htm

Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, S.J., accessed at http://sites.jcu.edu/magazine/2010/09/23/shaping-the-future/ Genuine Progress Indicator, accessed at http://www.donellameadows.org/genuine-talk-progress-and-the-gpi/