C. A. Bowers, Online articles and books

C. A. (Chet) Bowers holds a Ph. D. from the University of California in educational studies (with an emphasis on education and social thought), has taught at the University of Oregon and Portland State University, and was granted emeritus status in 1998. Currently Courtesy Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.

Teaching Career: University of Saskatchewan (1962-1967), University of Oregon (1967-1992), Portland State University (1993-1998) and granted emeritus status in 1998, University of Oregon (1998-2005) adjunct professor of environmental studies.

Teaching Appointments at Other Universities: University of California, York University, Taiwan Center for European and American Studies, Northern Arizona University, University of British Columbia, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Books and Chapters in Edited Collections by Other Authors: Written 12 chapters that have been published in edited books in the fields of education, history, and linguistics. The list of books I have authored include: The Progressive Educator and the Depression: The Radical Years (1969), Cultural Literacy for Freedom (1974), The Promise of Theory: Education and the Politics of Cultural Change (1984), 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 Apariencia: Hacia la descolonizacion de al educacion (2002). Mindful Conservatism: Rethinking the Ideological and Educational Basis of an Ecologically Sustainable Future (2003), Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis (co-edited with Frederique Apffel-Marglin) 2005; The False Promises of Constructivist Theories of Learning: A Global and Ecological Critique (2005); Revitalizing the Commons: Cultural and Educational Sites of Resistance and Affirmation (2006)

Journal Publications:: Over 95 articles have appeared in education journals, as well as in such journals as The Dalhousie Review, Manas , Main Currents in Modern Thought, The Trumpeter, Environmental Ethics, The Humanities, American Indian Quarterly, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Journal of Political Ecology, and Language and Ecology.

Invited to speak at 34 universities in the United States and 33 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. Recently invited to lecture in 5 German cities. 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.

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.

Gave the John Dewey Memorial Lecture in 1982 and was recognized as the outstanding environmental faculty at the University of Oregon in 1992.
Foreign Language Translations: Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish.
Notable Radio Interviews: Let Them Eat Data, was the basis of half hour interview with Moira Gunn broadcast on National Public Radio, and it has been translated into Japanese. The Chinese translation will appear in the fall of 2007.

Foundation Support: Received three grants from the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and was a regular participant in the mini-conferences of deep ecology thinkers sponsored by the foundation that met twice a year over a four year period.

Recently Completed Book Manuscripts: now available at http://cabowers.net Renewing the Commons: University Reform in an Era of Degraded Democracy and Environmental Crises.

Transforming Environmental Education: Making the Renewal of the Cultural and Environmental Commons the Focus of Educational Reform

Critical Essays of the Enclosure of the Cultural Commons: The Conceptual Foundations of Today’s Mis-Education

New Book Manuscript Being Reviewed

University Reform in an Era of Global Warming

Co-founder of the international online journal The Ecojustice Review: Educating for the Commons

Courses taught in the Following Departments at the University of Oregon: Educational Studies, Humanities, Environmental Studies, Honors College

Courses taught since retirement, and as an adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon:
Environmental Ethics in Cultural Perspective
Revitalizing the Commons in an Era of Globalization
Cultural Issues in Environmental Education

Biographical Information

New Book Manuscript Being Reviewed