Strengthening ocean literacy and awareness of the importance of the ocean requires a heightened focus on the marine environment, through both formal and informal education
How many of us have had actual experience in and of the sea? What happens at sea is authentic, requiring awareness and response to the demands of the ship, the crew, and the community. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the Ocean Classroom Foundation and will explain the organization's core belief: that the ocean is a wise teacher and a great axis for learning.
In most schools today, understanding of the ocean is a partitioned subject with no coordinated understanding through any single department, and in the United States ocean literacy has encountered continuous resistance due to a number of factors. Even in programs designed toward environmental studies, there is a common terrestrial bias which relegates the ocean to secondary importance.
