Overview
The overarching crisis of our times is a crisis of the way we think. There is an underlying separation - of mind from body, from emotions, from spirit - fundamental to many Westerners' ways of knowing the world, contributing to alienating beliefs and practices that fail to be personally fulfilling or ecologically sustainable. Education could be means to foreground the sacred character of human-earth relations and mediate ecological imbalances between humans and the natural world. Ecology, Spirituality, and Education draws on ecofeminist theory, deep ecology, and postmodern process theory to explore human knowing as a bridge toward human being, the sustainable health of the human species, and the web of relations within which we reside.
Full Product Details
Author: Elaine Riley-Taylor ,
Elaine Riley Taylor
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Volume: 201
Weight: 0.270kg
ISBN: 9780820455433
ISBN 10: 0820455431
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 04 September 2002
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
« Elaine Riley-Taylor invites us to walk a path with her that traverses richly textured ground; a ground-breaking path in its originality and vision. Riley-Taylor's weaving of personal narrative and philosophical analysis offers an ecospiritual perspective intended for educators faced with increasing alienation, domination, and mind-numbing standardization. Through her poetic « methodology of storytelling and creative theoretical integration, Riley-Taylor develops a powerful praxis to transform our epistemological and ethical assumptions. Her message deserves attention: the future of our planet could depend on it.
This rigorous and evocative study - influenced by deep ecology, ecofeminism, postmodernism - guides us into a world of relationality and sustainability. It is, to employ Riley-Taylor's apt term, an instance of 'eco-spiritual praxis'. (William F. Pinar, St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor, Louisiana State University) Elaine Riley-Taylor invites us to walk a path with her that traverses richly textured ground; a ground-breaking path in its originality and vision. Riley-Taylor's weaving of personal narrative and philosophical analysis offers an ecospiritual perspective intended for educators faced with increasing alienation, domination, and mind-numbing standardization. Through her poetic methodology of storytelling and creative theoretical integration, Riley-Taylor develops a powerful praxis to transform our epistemological and ethical assumptions. Her message deserves attention: the future of our planet could depend on it. (Wendy Kohli, Director of Teacher Education, The New School, and President of the American Educational Studies Association, 2000-2001)
Author Information
The Author: Elaine Riley-Taylor is Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum theory at Louisiana State University and has published articles in professional books and journals.
