Rewilding Education - Rethinking the Place of Schools Now and in the Future

Rewilding Education calls for a radical, system-wide reinvention of education as an adaptable ecosystem; less predictable and measurable, but far more suitable for shaping the adults of tomorrow.

List of contents

Introduction
Part One: What's wrong with schools?
Chapter One: In the death throes of modernity?
Chapter Two: Tunnel vision and neglect of the climate emergency
Chapter Three: Making us ill
Chapter Four: Reproducing inequality
Part Two: Rewilding education
Chapter Five: Why rewilding?
Chapter Six: Valuing wisdom
Chapter Seven: Nature as teacher
Chapter Eight: Health, engagement, practical wisdom and an arts-based mindset
Chapter Nine: Education for peace, justice and inclusion
Conclusion
Rewilding Education: Letters to my readers

About the author

Hilary Cremin is a Professor in Education Peace and Conflict and Head of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. Hilary has also published Positive Peace in Schools: Tackling Conflict and Creating a Culture of Peace in the Classroom (2017, Routledge) and Debates in Citizenship Education (2012, Routledge) amongst others. Hilary has worked in the public, private and voluntary sector as a schoolteacher, educational consultant, project coordinator and academic.

Product details

• Authors: Hilary (University of Cambridge) Cremin, Cremin Hilary
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2025
• EAN: 9781041043157
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4104315-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Sustainability, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Experimental Methods, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Education, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education