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The volume identifies and debates important elements of what would be involved in an education that is truly adequate for the environmental situation that currently confronts us. The chapters in the book present a wide variety of perspectives and raise questions about much mainstream environmental education.
List of contents
Foreword Essays on nature and the philosophy of environmental education: An introduction
1. Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education: some key themes
2. Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)
3. Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett's thoughts
4. Coming to our senses: Zen and the art of ecoactivism
5. Ecologising education beyond angels and villains
6. Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education
7. Environmental consciousness, nature and the philosophy of education: matters arising
8. Normalizing catastrophe: sustainability and scientism
9. Education for sustainability as a frame of mind
10. Sustainability as a frame of mind-and how to develop it
11. Environmental education and the issue of nature
12. Environmental concern, moral education and our place in nature
13. Notes on the character and educational significance of environmental consciousness
About the author
Michael Bonnett is an independent scholar who has held senior research and teaching positions in the UK universities of Cambridge, London and Bath. His work in the field of philosophy of education has been widely published.
Justin Dillon is Professor of Science and Environmental Education at University College London's Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education. He taught in London schools for nine years before working at King's College London, the University of Bristol and the University of Exeter.
Alan Reid is Professor of Education at Monash University, Australia. He contributes to a range of environmental and sustainability education research networks, locally and internationally. Key activities include editing the research journal,
Environmental Education Research, and supporting the Global Environmental Education Partnership, an international stakeholder network.
