{"id":2734,"date":"2022-02-01T16:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeytince.org\/herkes-icin-ekolojik-okuryazarlik\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T23:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:47:28","slug":"ecological-literacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zeytince.org\/en\/ecological-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecological Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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YVES ROCHER FOUNDATION
WOMEN OF THE SOIL 2022 WINNERS ANNOUNCED!<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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One of the Founders of our Association, Assoc. Menevi\u015f Uzbay Pirili won the Woman of the Land Award for her pioneering work in ecological literacy education in Izmir.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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With their inspiring projects that support soil, biodiversity, and women’s power, the 2022 winners of the Yves Rocher Foundation Women of the Soil Award, organized for the 7th time this year in Turkey, are Ebru Baybara Demir (Biodegradable Waste Management Project from Soil to Soil), Selvi G\u00fcrevin (Zero Waste Home \u2013 Soil Movement), Menevi\u015f Uzbay Pirili (Ecological Literacy Training to Understand the Language of the Earth).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ecological Literacy is a sustainable life education and teaching that adopts a participatory and interactive education method for people of all ages and groups. Its aim is to teach the basic processes and working principles of our planet and nature that have made life possible on earth for billions of years, in a way that EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND. In other words, it aims to understand the unique language of nature and aims to restore the broken relations with nature.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Ecological Literacy trainings basically aim to improve the awareness of the participants about human-nature relations and ongoing ecological problems, and to participate as active subjects in solutions for sustainable lifestyles in both individual and urban life. Spreading the development of Ecological Literacy training in Izmir will contribute to the development of sustainability culture and the formation and dissemination of an ecological community in our city.<\/p>


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One of the founders of the ZEYTINCE association, with her team of trainers led by Assoc. Menevi\u015f Uzbay Pirili, has been continuing Ecological Literacy training and education for young people and adults in Izmir, in cooperation with various institutions, since 2017. As of the end of 2021, nearly 2,000 people attended the training programs conducted in cooperation with the central and local governments and many relevant stakeholders in the region. (Table 1)<\/p>


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Table 1: 2017 \u2013 2021 : Ecological Literacy Trainings Conducted by ZEYTINCE E.E.Y.D<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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E.F.E Seminars 2017 and 2018<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Izmir Turkish Collage -Ege University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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AEGEE Seminar (2018)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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-AEGEE -Ege University<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Nature and Science Schools: Olive Knows Something Project 2018 -2019<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Ege University Zeytince EYDD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Urban Ecological Literacy Seminars (THREE times 2018, 2019 and 2020)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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-Izmir Metropolitan Municipality -Izmir Mediterranean Academy \u2013 Zeytince EYDD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ecological Literacy on Campus 2019- 2020<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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-Ege University Rectorate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Daily seminars for various Institutions (2019)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u2013 Zeytince EYDD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ecological Literacy Training: Training for Izmir Municipalities Employees (November-December 2021)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u2013 Izmir Metropolitan Municipality<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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“We use the concept of literacy for languages.<\/em>
Our planet and nature, which we consider silent, has started to warn us in its own unique language for the last thirty years.<\/em>
Of course, the language of nature is not verbal; The codes of the language of nature lie in the basic operating principles of the natural processes that have made life possible on earth for billions of years.<\/em>
Ecological literacy is a participatory and interactive sustainable life education. This education aims to teach the ecological processes that have made life possible on earth for billions of years and the working principles of NATURE in a way that “EVERYONE” can understand.<\/em>
It aims to design and implement sustainable, creative initiatives in our economic and social lives – inspired by processes in the natural world, designs existing in nature, and nature’s strategies that have made life possible on the planet for billions of years.<\/em>
Sustainable living means realizing economies, technologies, cities, institutions and lifestyles that are compatible with nature’s working principles.”<\/em><\/h4>\n

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A Creative, Participatory and Holistic Learning Process: Talking to Nature<\/h1>\n

Ecological literacy education proposes a different education method than didactic education models. In addition to transferring theoretical and factual information, trainings also include workshops that develop the sense of curiosity in the participants, inspiring them, increasing their capacity for doing, and thus supporting their learning by sensing and experiencing the human-nature relationship. In this context, nurturing and integrating the different comprehension and learning capacities, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, and ecological intelligence of the participants in the training process comes to the fore.
Ecological Literacy refers to the educational process as ‘talking to nature’.  The form and structure of all kinds of conversations with the natural world is a restorative process of the relationship that has been severed with nature and at the same time a healing art. As a method, ecological literacy education adopts combining the power of scientific knowledge with the joy of emotionally connecting to nature and the world, participating and taking responsibility in this direction.
Ecological literacy education adopts an interdisciplinary and holistic method in order to understand life and changes in nature, as well as current ecological crises. In this context, the educational process is carried out in a wide range of fields related to ecology, philosophy, architectural design, and economics.<\/p>\n


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ECOLOGICAL LITERACY EDUCATION AND SEMINARS WE HAVE ORGANIZED SINCE 2018:<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Ecological Literacy Trainer:<\/strong> Menevi\u015f Uzbay Pirili
Place:<\/strong> Zeytin School, Karaburun \u0130necik Izmir
Number of Participants:<\/strong> 60 people (high school and university students)
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E.F.E seminars continue to be held once a year within the Zeytin school.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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This event<\/strong> was organized as a one-day event at Zeytin School on 29 March 2018<\/strong>, with the participation of students either from various domestic universities or some universities in Europe, through the Izmir representative of the European Students Forum (AEGEE)<\/strong>. During this event, a forum based on interactive participation was organized in the morning session within the scope of the Community Philosophy Inquiry method on sustainable living.<\/p>

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In the afternoon session, Assoc. Dr. Menevi\u015f gave a seminar on Ecological Literacy and Ecological Intelligence. Afterwards, an olive route walk, which included monumental trees, was held with the participants.<\/p>

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At the event on March 23, 2019, Ak\u0131n Erdo\u011fan<\/strong>, one of the Founders of our Association, moderated the sessions. In the afternoon session, the Olive Route walk was held.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Project Coordinator:<\/strong> Menevi\u015f Uzbay Pirili and R. Funda Barbaros
Project Duration:<\/strong> In 2018- 2019 and 2020, three trainings were given, lasting 5 weeks each.
Supporting Institutions<\/strong>: Zeytince EYDD; Izmir Mediterranean Academy and Izmir Metropolitan Municipality
Number of Participants:<\/strong> 300 people (young and adults) from the city of Izmir
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