Overview

This book tackles questions about the metaphysical and ethical foundations of our concern for our planet, and about educational and pedagogical implications. It pursues answers to urgent questions such as: should educational policy and practice be informed by a concern for nature and the environment for our (human) purposes? Or should we teach and learn for the natural environment in and for itself? Chapters in this volume contribute towards the unmasking and undoing of the various kinds of denialism and pernicious relativism (cultural, moral and epistemological) that have held us in their grip and that continue to thwart attempts to establish a sane and morally sustainable set of relationships between us, human beings, and other animals and the animate and inanimate environment. Education, the Environment and Sustainability provides educators and interested laypersons with tools for critical reflection and interrogation of their own and others’ assumptions, preconceptions, and practices affecting nature and the environment. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Ethics and Education.

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Author:   Kai Horsthemke (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781032684680

ISBN 10:   1032684682
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   15 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Education, the environment and sustainability 1. The task of education as we confront the potential for social and ecological collapse 2. ‘Landing on Earth’: An educational project for the present—A response to Vanessa Andreotti 3. Education, anthropocentrism, and interspecies sustainability: Confronting institutional anxieties in omnicidal times 4. Animal advocacy, fear and loathing in academia: A response to Helena Pedersen 5. Be the village: Exploring the ethics of having children 6. Got milk? From Growing strong bones to nurturing idealized subjectivities 7. Psychoanalytic ecofeminist Dorothy Dinnerstein: Theorizing the roots of rapacity 8. Educating in and for uncertainty: Climate science, human evolution and the legacy of Arne Naess as guidance for ecological practice 9. Co-creation in the commonwealth: Understanding right relationship in place 10. Youth power – youth movements: Myth, activism, and democracy 11. White, green futures 12. Spiritual exercises in times of climate change

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Kai Horsthemke is Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His monographs include The Moral Status and Rights of Animals (2010), Animals and African Ethics (2015), Animal Rights Education (2018), Indigenous Knowledge: Philosophical and Educational Considerations (2021), and The Meaning of Death (forthcoming).

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