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> The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto
> (OISE/UT)
> Transformative Learning Centre, in collaboration with
>
> the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto and
> the Women's Network on Health and the Environment (WNH&E) is
> offering
>
> ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AND POLICY
> CHANGE
> EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL AND ECOSYSTEM HEALING
>
> A two week summer institute certificate course from July 5 - 16, 1999, 9
> am to 5 pm.
>
> Course Director: Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, PhD, MES.
>
>
> Environmental Health is a challenging field of research, education,
policy
> and advocacy endeavours that link the natural, health and social sciences
> with the worlds of the academy, community, business, economics, labour,
> governments and media. They include physical, social, cultural, spiritual
> and societal relationships which are multi directional and interlinked
with
> the health and well being of all life on earth.
>
> This course focuses on exploring these links between health and the
> environment in the context of popular education and transformative
learning
> in formal and non formal settings. It does so by helping participants to
> develop critical thinking, investigative, analytical and practical skills
> to better understand the constraints of scientific certainty and
> uncertainty in today's complex world in order to advocate for lifestyle
as
> well as public policy changes. The issues are framed within the broad
> socioenvironmental perspectives on health promotion reflected in the
goals
> of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion - strengthening community
> action, developing personal skills, creating supportive environments,
> helping in skills development to educate, enable, mediate and advocate.
>
>
> Cost:  $315.00. Negotiable for students, seniors and unwaged. (Payment
> should not be a barrier for anyone who wishes to attend).
>
> For more info or to register call: (416) 928-0880
> or e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> To send cheques: 517 College Street, Suite 233, Toronto, Ontario M6G 4A2
>
> Objectives:
> 1. To gain an deeper understanding of key concepts related to the
linkages
> between health and the environment including causation; sources; pathways
> (air, water, soil and food); risk assessment; health impacts; policy
> analysis; primary prevention; the precautionary principle; social power
> relationships in society; environmental justice; gender and cultural
> issues; safe production; consumer education...
>
> 2. To apply this understanding to the critique of current biomedical
> approaches to health and well being and the development and
implementation
> of holistic environmentally appropriate health promotion practices and
> policies.
>
> 3. To develop environmental health literacy, problem solving skills and
> popular education techniques and experiences for creating healthier
> environments.
>
> 4. To integrate these knowledges and skills into existing practice: be it
> university, school, community, workplace, faith community, social setting
> and so on (starting from participants' life/work knowledge and
> experience).
>
> The course consists of readings, guest lecturers, audiovisual
> presentations, plenary and small group discussions. It is anticipated
that
> participants will engage in the discussions and define their particular
> interests, goals and expectations so as to "get what they need" during
the
> ten day program.
>
> Who should take this course: teachers, community health workers, health
> professionals, adult educators, labour unions, environmentalists,
community
> organizers, policy makers, economists parents/grandparents, youth,
> everyone...
>
> There are no prerequisites.
> Participants are expected to give group presentations at the end of the
> course and hand in a 15 page paper (within the two weeks following
> completion) summarizing (consolidating) what was new, important and most
> useful for their work and interest.
>
> Draft Course Outline:
> Week One
> Day One: Orientation, introductions, conceptual frameworks in
> transformative learning for informal and non formal environmental health
> education, introduction to environmental health debates and issues, to
> relevant terminology, definitions and principles of toxicology,
> epidemiology, ecosystem health, synergism etc. Trevor Hancock, Canadian
> Association of Physicians for the Environment.
>
> Films: Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer 53 minutes
> Adam's World, NFB, 18 mins.
>
> Day Two: Where you live and where you work: Home, workplace and community
> health, , Cathy Walker, CAW,.Madalena Silva, Ontario Healthy
> Communities.
>
> Films: Before Their Time, 20 mins. No Grapes 18, mins.
>
> Day Three: Social issues in environmental health: gender, race, class,
> culture, ethnicity, age, poverty. Anne Phillips, Willi Nolan, Nita
> Chaudhuri
> Films: Uranium,  NFB, 40 mins. about the impacts on Aboriginal people,
> their health, values and the environment.
> Stopping Cancer Where it Starts: The Toxics Links Coalition, 20 mins.
>
> Day Four: AM: Biomedical technological health models, pharmaceutical
> influences and environmental health medical practice. Lynn Marshall,
> Environmental Health Clinic, Women's College Hospital. Film "Everyday
> Carcinogens: Acting for Prevention in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty"
> 35 mins. with biologist/author Sandra Steingraber
>
> PM: Complementary and alternative holistic approaches: Asking different
> questions. Immune system relationships, primary prevention and prevention
> of recurrence: Charlene Day (author). Ancient Chinese Medicine and
> Practice, Roxana Ng, OISE/UT.
>
> Day Five: AM: Transformative Learning and Environmental Health: Theory
and
> Praxis. Working in small groups with similar interests to utilize
> educational tools and develop knowledge and skills using such books as
> Educating for a Change" and "Naming the Moment".
>
> PM: Formal education systems and environmental health, schools,
> universities etc.:
> Parents Environmental Network: Eleanor Dudar or Elise Houghton. A case
> study (and ongoing challenges) of a department of adult education, the
> Greening of OISE/UT; Healthy Universities project, Dr. Jody MacDonald,
> School of Nursing.
>
> Week Two:
> Day Six: AM: Health Promotion as a field of study, research and
> application. Irv Rootman.
> >>>>>Environmental law and public health as educational issues. CELA
Cathy
> Cooper
> Viewing of the video "Turning Down the Heat" with David Suzuki, 40 min.
on
> climate change and health.
>
>
> Day Seven:  Policy and Action Issues: Personal, Municipal, Provincial,
> National and Global. The Recommendations of the Task Force Report on the
> Primary Prevention of Cancer (1995), The International Joint Commission
> (IJC) Reports. Valerie Hepburn, Public Health, City of Toronto
> Mark Murphy, Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights
>
> Films: Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our
> Environment. 29 mins. (academy award winning documentary about health,
the
> environment, the media and successful community based campaign strategies
> Great Lakes, Great Lawns, 20 mins
>
> Day Eight: Integrating environmental health issues into your work.
> Preparing for group presentations and first group presentations and
> discussions. Presentations can also be creative forms of expression -
> skits, poetry, art, songs etc...
>
> Films: Hormone Copy Cats, 18 mins.
> Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, NFB 59
> mins.
>
> Day Nine: Group presentations and discussions.
>
> Day Ten: Group presentations, discussions, next steps, evaluation and
> closing.
>
> Proposed guest lecturers
> * Valerie Hepburn, Department of Public Health, City of Toronto
> * Ann Phillips, President, Women's Health in Women's Hands
> * Kathy Cooper, researcher, Canadian Environmental Law Association
> * Madalena Silva, Community Animator/Consultant,  Ontario Healthy
Communities
> * Irving Rootman, Executive Director, Centre for Health Promotion, U of T
> * Charlene Day, Nutritionist, Women's Network on Health and the
Environment
> * Dr. Lynn Marshall, Environmental Health Clinic, Women's College
Hospital
> * Dr. Trevor Hancock, FES, York University, Canadian Assoc. of Physicians
> for the Environment
> * Willi Nolan, International Institute of Concern for Public Health,
> Aboriginal perspective
> * Nita Chaudhuri, South Riverdale Community Health Centre
> * Dr. Jody MacDonald, School of Nursing, University of Toronto
> * Cathy Walker, CAW, Health and Safety
> * Roxana Ng, PhD, Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE/UT.
> * Eleanor Dudar or Elise Houghton, Parents Environmental Network, Greater
> Toronto Board of Education
> * Mark Murphy, Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights
>
> Proposed Readings To be selected by course participants according their
> interests and needs.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Arditti, R., & Schreiber, T. "Breast Cancer: The Environmental
> Connection",
> >>>>>Resist Magazine, May/June, 1992.
> >>>>>-------"Breast Cancer: Organizing for Resistance", Resist Magazine,
3, 9,
> >>>>>November, 1994.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Arnold, R., Burke, B., James, C., Martin, D. and Thomas, B.
Educating
> for a
> >>>>>Change, Toronto: Between the Lines and the Doris Marshall Institute,
> 1991.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Batt, S. Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer.
Charlottetown:
> >>>>>Gynergy Books, 1994.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Barndt, D. Naming The Moment: Political Analysis for Action.
Toronto:
> >>>>>Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, 1988.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Berry, T. The Dream of the Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,
1988.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Bertell, R. No Immediate Danger? Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth.
> >>>>>Toronto: The Women's Press, 1985.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Bullard, R.D. Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the
> Grassroots.
> >>>>>Boston: South End Press, 1993.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962,
1994.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Chaudhuri, Nita, "Child Health, Poverty and the Environment: The
Canadian
> >>>>>Context" in The Canadian Journal of Public Health. Vol 89,
Supplement 1,
> >>>>>May-June 1998.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Chivian E., et al. Critical Condition: Human Health and the
> Environment. A
> >>>>>Report by Physicians for Social Responsibility. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT
> Press,
> >>>>>1993.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Choldin, Earl, Director, Alberta Global Education Project; "Methods
and
> >>>>>Goals of Global Education" in Orbit - Educating for a Global
Perspective.
> >>>>>March, 1992.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Chomsky, N. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic
Societies.
> >>>>>Toronto: CBC, 1989.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Chu. C. & Simpson R. (eds.). Ecological Public Health: From Vision
to
> >>>>>Practice.  ParticipACTION, Toronto, 1994.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Clorfene-Casten, L. Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits and Prevention.
> Monroe,
> >>>>>Maine: Common Courage Press, 1996.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Colborn, T. et al. Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our
Fertility,
> >>>>>Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story. Toronto:
Dutton
> >>>>>Press, 1996.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Colorado, P. Bridging Native and Western Science, Convergence, XX1,
2&3,
> >>>>>1988.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Davis, Devra Lee, Deborah Axelrod, Lisa Bailey, Mitchell Gaynor and
Annie
> >>>>>Sasco. Rethinking "Breast cancer Risk and the Environment: The Case
> for the
> >>>>>Precautionary Principle." Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol
106, No.
> >>>>>9, September 1998.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Epstein, S.E. The Politics of Cancer. New York: Doubleday, 1979,
1998.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Franklin, U. The Real World of Technology: CBC Massey Lecture
Series.
> >>>>>Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1990.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Gofman, J. Preventing Breast Cancer: The Story of a Major, Proven,
> >>>>>Preventable Cause of this Disease. San Francisco: Committee for
Nuclear
> >>>>>Responsibility, Inc., 1995.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Goldin Rosenberg, D. Taking Action for a Healthy Future, resource
> guide to
> >>>>>accompany the film Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer,
> Toronto:
> >>>>>WNH&E, 1997.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Gould, J.M. and the Radiation and Public Health Project, Radiation
and
> >>>>>Breast Cancer: The High Cost of Living Near Reactors, New York: Four
> Walls
> >>>>>Eight Windows Publishers, 1995.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>IARC/ World Health Organization, IARC Monographs on the Evaluation
of
> >>>>>Carcinogenic Risk to Humans, "Preamble" and "Lists of IARC
Evaluations,"
> >>>>>IARC, Lyon, France, May, 1993.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>International Joint Commission/Commission mixte internationale.
> Seventh and
> >>>>>Eighth Biennial Reports on Great Lakes Water Quality, 1994 and 1996.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>"Environmental Damage and Aboriginal Health", in Touch The National
> Indian
> >>>>>and inuit Community Health Representatives Organization Publication,
> Vol.8
> >>>>>No.2
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Labonte, R., "See Me, Hear Me, Touch Me, Feel Me: Lessons on
> Environmental
> >>>>>Health Information for Bureaucratic Activists," in Chu. C. & Simpson
R.
> >>>>>(eds.). Ecological Public Health: From Vision to Practice.
> ParticipACTION,
> >>>>>Toronto, 1994.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Last, J., Pengally, D., Trouton, K., Taking Our Breath Away: The
Health
> >>>>>Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change. Vancouver: David Suzuki
> >>>>>Foundation, 1998.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Merchant, C. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific
> >>>>>Revolution. Toronto: Harper and Row, 1990 edition.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Merrifield, J. "Putting Scientists in their Place: Participatory
Research
> >>>>>in Environmental and Occupational Health", in P. Park, M.
> Brydon-Miller, B.
> >>>>>Hall, & T. Jackson, (eds.). Voices of Change: Participatory Research
> in the
> >>>>>U.S. and Canada. Toronto: OISE Press, 1993.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Mies, M. & Shiva, V. Ecofeminism. Halifax: Fernwood Publications,
1993.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Misch, A. "Assessing Environmental Health Risks" in State of the
World
> >>>>>1994: A Worldwatch Institute report on Progress Toward a Sustainable
> >>>>>Society, New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Moss, R.W. The Cancer Industry: Unravelling the Politics of Cancer.
New
> >>>>>York: Paragon House, 1989.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion/ Charte d'Ottawa pour la
Promotion de
> >>>>>la sante, Health Canada.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Pike, G. and Selby, D. Reconnecting from National to Global
Curriculum.
> >>>>>Surrey (UK): World Wildlife Fund for Nature, 1995.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Plant, J. (ed.). Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism.
Toronto:
> >>>>>Between the Lines, 1989.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Proctor, R. Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't
Know
> >>>>>About Cancer,  Toronto: Harper Collins, 1995.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Raeburn, J. & I. Rootman, People-centred Health Promotion. Toronto:
Wiley
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Recommendations for the Primary Prevention of Cancer:Recommendations
of
> >>>the
> >>>>>Ontario Task Force on the Primary Prevention of Cancer. Toronto:
Ministry
> >>>>>of Health, 1995.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Renner, M. "Assessing the Military's War on the Environment", in the
1991
> >>>>>State of the World; a Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward
a
> >>>>>Sustainable Society. New York: Norton, 1991.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Rice B. & J. Weinberg, Dressed to Kill: The Dangers of Dry Cleaning
> and the
> >>>>>Case for Chlorine-free Alternatives. A Greenpeace/Pollution Probe
Report,
> >>>>>1994.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Robbins, A. Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The health and
environmental
> >>>>>effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on, and above the earth. A
> report of
> >>>>>the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and
the
> >>>>>Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. New York: Apex
Press,
> >>1991.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Roberts, W. & Brandom, S. Get a Life: How to Make a Good Buck, Dance
> Around
> >>>>>the Dinosaurs and Save the World While You're At It. Toronto: Get a
Life
> >>>>>Publishing House, 1995.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Seager, J. Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global
> >>>>>Environmental Crisis, New York: Routledge, 1993.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Seed, J., Macy, J.R., Fleming, P., Naess, A. Thinking Like a
Mountain:
> >>>>>Towards a Council of All Beings. Philadelphia: New Society
Publishers,
> >>1998.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Sherwin, S.  No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care.
> >>>>>Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>-------"Feminism, Ethics and Cancer", Humane Medicine, 10, 4.
October,
> >>1994.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>State of Knowledge Report on Environmental Contaminants and Human
Health
> >>>>>the Great Lakes Basin. 1997, Health Canada. Ottawa: Minister of
Public
> >>>>>Works and Government Services Canada. (Catalogue No. H46 297-214E.
ISBN
> >>>>>0-662-26-1690).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Steingraber, S. Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and
the
> >>>>>Environment. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Waring, M. If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, Toronto:
Harper
> >>>>>Collins, 1988.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>WEDO, Breast Cancer: The Global Agenda, Action for Prevention
> Campaign, The
> >>>>>Women's Environment and Development Campaign (WEDO), New York.
> >>>Chapters
> >>>>>include: The Global Epidemic, The Chemical Connection, The Radiation
> >>>>>Connection, The Role of Electromagnetic Fields, Environmental
> Activism, The
> >>>>>Policy Agenda, 1996.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>