Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education
Michael Bonnett, "Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education "
English | ISBN: 0367373440 | 2020 | 164 pages | PDF | 1481 KB
English | ISBN: 0367373440 | 2020 | 164 pages | PDF | 1481 KB
This book explores alternative ways of understanding our environmental situation by challenging the Western view of nature as purely a resource for humans.
Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education asserts that we need to retrieve a thinking that expresses a different relationship with nature: one that celebrates nature's otherness and is attuned to its intrinsic integrity, agency, normativity and worth. Through such receptivity to nature's address we can develop a sense of our own being-in-nature that provides a positive orientation towards the problems we now face. Michael Bonnett argues that this reframing and rethinking of our place in nature has fundamental implications for education as a whole, questioning the idea of human "stewardship" of nature and developing the idea of moral education in a world of alterity and non-rational agents.
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