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Informationen zum Autor Michael Bonnett is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the book Children's Thinking (1994). Klappentext In this timely and challenging book, Michael Bonnett asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. He shows that the kind of searching enquiry needed to address this question exposes profound metaphysical issues about the meaning of nature and our relationship to it. The resolution of these issues, he suggests, is decisive for our understanding of ourselves and of our place in the greater scheme of things. Retrieving Nature explores the idea of a right relationship with nature where sustainability is thought of not simply as a policy but as a frame of mind. It argues that this frame of mind is an essential feature of authentic human consciousness, going to the heart of knowledge, truth and value. In this way, the book develops a post-humanist perspective that poses fundamental questions about the nature, purpose and practice of education. Zusammenfassung This timely and challenging book asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. * A timely and challenging book! which asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. * Puts forward an innovative thesis about our relationship with nature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: A Tangled Web. 2. Metaphysics: Education and Environmental Concern. 3. Notions of Nature. 4. Retreat from Reality. 5. Nature as our Primordial Reality. 6. Nature's Intrinsic Value. 7. Nature and Knowing. 8. Towards an Environmental Ethos for Education. 9. Education for Sustainable Development: Sustainability as a Frame of Mind. 10. Issues for Environmental Education. 11. Education for a Post--Humanist Age: The Question of Human Dwelling. Bibliography. Index.
