This document discusses the positive and negative outcomes of modernity. It then explores how experiential learning programs can help address some of the negative outcomes, such as alienation, weak family units, and lack of meaning. The document promotes taking an experiential learning course offered by the Environmental and Rural Studies program, which uses hands-on activities and projects to facilitate learning. Examples mentioned include bushcraft, metalworking, and nature-based programs.
3. Positive Outcomes of Modernity • Social rights movements • Health Care • Technological developments • Increased Well-being • Cities and Institutions
4. Negative Outcomes of Modernity • Narcissism • "Risk society" • Consumerism • Weaker Family Units • "Alienation"
5. What do "risk society" and "alienation" have to do with ERS?
6. Risk Society Unity over globalized "risks" (Beck,1992).
10. 1800's Arts and Crafts Movement Ruskin & Morris & Woodsworth | Art |Architecture |Poetry
11. Lo! lo! the dawn-blink yonder,
The sunrise draweth nigh,
And men forget to wonder
That they were born to die.
Then praise the deed that wendeth
Through the daylight and the mirth!
The tale that never endeth
Whoso may dwell on earth.
