Eco-Rational Education

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Eco-Rational Education

An Educational Response to Environmental Crisis

Philosophy and theory of education Educational psychology Educational strategies and policy Sustainability

Author: Simone Thornton

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 28th July 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781000917802


Eco-Rational Education proposes an educational response to climate change, environmental degradation, and desctructive human relations to ecology through the delivery of critical land-responsive environmental education.

The book argues that education is a powerful vehicle for both social change and cultural reproduction. It proposes that the prioritisation and integration of environmental education across the curriculum is essential to the development of ecologically rational citizens capable of responding to the environmental crisis and an increasingly changing world. Using philosophical analysis, particularly environmental philosophy, pragmatism, and ecofeminism, the book develops an understanding of contemporary issues in education, especially inquiry-based learning as pedagogy, diversifying knowledge, environmental and epistemic justice, climate change education, and citizenship education.

Eco-Rational Education will be of interest to researchers and post-graduate students of social and political philosophy, educational philosophy, as well as environmental philosophy, ethics, and teacher education.

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