Interpreters must address emerging environmental crises, not just park facts.
Evidence
In the early 1970s he traveled over 30,000 miles with Walt Dabney, a young national park ranger, to provide further realistic guidance to the National Park Service on emerging environmental issues. During this extended trip, Tilden repeatedly told audiences that “we are not doing enough… We are entering into a world of crisis … something needs to be added. The interpreter should have a wider knowledge of what is going on in the world.” He felt that the National Park Service should be using interpretation to foster sound environmental morals. This counsel was true in 1972; it is equally true today. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 12
Categorization
- XREF: Tilden’s later insistence that interpretation foster ‘environmental morals’ aligns directly with the Eco-Justice expansive ‘teach’ and the polyad’s environmental justice thread, decades before those frameworks were named. — connects to: Today’s environmental crisis is not new in kind, only in degree. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 334; Environmental problems require cultural analysis, not just scientific study — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 234; Environmentalism needs a worldview shift to relationality, not just policy fixes. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1036
- QUESTION: How did Tilden’s 1970s ‘world of crisis’ counsel get translated into interpreter training, and did the NPS heed it?
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
Broader Connections
- Environmental problems require cultural analysis, not just scientific study
#expands(0.85) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 234 - Environmentalism needs a worldview shift to relationality, not just policy fixes.
#expands(0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1036 - Today’s environmental crisis is not new in kind, only in degree.
#contradicts(0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 334