ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the students were introduced to an in-depth understanding of the languaging processes that are unavoidable in making pedagogical and curricular decisions. It also presents the core concepts that students in professional education courses should encounter before taking other courses, especially survey courses. The four major conceptual categories mentioned in the description of the course were presented as ecologies, the ecology of languaging processes, the ecology of the tension between the cultural commons and a consumer-dependent lifestyle, the ecology of computer-mediated learning and abstract thinking, and the ecology of moving to different levels in exercising ecological intelligence. The importance of relying upon the list of key concepts about the languaging processes that characterize all cultural ecologies is that they point to the need for students to learn about their own context-specific cultural patterns that affect their communities and the natural systems that are now being degraded.
