Eco-Rational Education

An Educational Response to Environmental Crisis
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-70079-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Eco-Rational Education proposes an educational response to climate change, environmental degradation, and desctructive human relations to ecology through the delivery of critical land-responsive environmental education.

The book argues that education is a powerful vehicle for both social change and cultural reproduction. It proposes that the prioritisation and integration of environmental education across the curriculum is essential to the development of ecologically rational citizens capable of responding to the environmental crisis and an increasingly changing world. Using philosophical analysis, particularly environmental philosophy, pragmatism, and ecofeminism, the book develops an understanding of contemporary issues in education, especially inquiry-based learning as pedagogy, diversifying knowledge, environmental and epistemic justice, climate change education, and citizenship education.

Eco-Rational Education will be of interest to researchers and post-graduate students of social and political philosophy, educational philosophy, as well as environmental philosophy, ethics, and teacher education.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thornton, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Albert Camus: insights into moral education 2. Economic rationality and ecological failure 3. The myth of reversal: identity, history, and the colonial imagination 4. Truth, certainty, and the limits of knowledge 5. History: lessons in time and identity formation 6. Dwelling in uncertainty 7. A pedagogy of lucidity

Über Autor(innen)

Simone Thornton Lectures in Philosophy, at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong, and is an Honorary Research Fellow, at the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland. Her research intersects social and political philosophy, educational philosophy, and environmental education, with a focus on developing ecologically rational forms of education.