Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education: Ecologizing Education (Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies)

Synopsis

This book explores alternative ways of understanding our environmental situation by challenging the Western view of nature as purely a resource for humans. Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education asserts that we need to retrieve a thinking that expresses a different relationship with nature: one that celebrates nature's otherness and is attuned to its intrinsic integrity, agency, normativity and worth. Through such receptivity to nature's address we can develop a sense of our own being-in-nature that provides a positive orientation towards the problems we now face. Michael Bonnett argues that this reframing and rethinking of our place in nature has fundamental implications for education as a whole, questioning the idea of human "stewardship" of nature and developing the idea of moral education in a world of alterity and non-rational agents. Drawing on and revising work published by the author over the last 15 years, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of environmental studies, environmental education, and the philosophy of education.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

164 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000338287

Related ISBNs:

9780367373443, 9780429353222, 9780367373436

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

12/31/20

Copyrighted By:

Michael Bonnett, The right of Michael Bonnett to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Education, Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Sociology

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