Social Ecology and Education: Transforming Worldviews and Practices

Social Ecology and Education: Transforming Worldviews and Practices
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 September 2020
Pages
186
ISBN
9780367471088

Social Ecology and Education: Transforming Worldviews and Practices

Social Ecology and Education addresses ecological understanding as a transformative educational issue: a learning response to emerging insights into social-ecological relationships and the future of life on our planet.

In the face of the existential threats posed by climate change, loss of biodiversity, pandemids and the associated ecological and social challenges; there is a need to extend our responses beyond scientific inquiry and technological initiatives. This book seeks to move the dialogue towards a deeper and broader understanding of the complexities of the issues involved. To achieve this, the book discusses issues rarely addressed through programs in Education for Sustainability and Environmental Education, such as student defined knowledge systems, deep engagement with the implications of indigenous understandings, climate change as symptomatic of broad epistemological problems, social disengagement and differentiated barriers to meaningful change. This work is enriched by its focus on the learning and the learning systems that have led to our current predicament.

This book seeks to initiate considerations of this kind, to invigorate education for sustainable, equitable, healthy and meaningful futures. As such, this book will be of great interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of education and environmental courses.

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