Education for Sustainable Development, Good Environment and Good Life, Contributions of the EU DGXI BEENET (Baltic Environmental Education Network) Project
Tiivistelmä: Ekopedagogiikka ja ekodidaktiikka : kasvatus kestävään kehitykseen, hyvään ympäristöön ja hyvään elämään : EU DXGI BEENET (Baltic Environmental Education Network) -projektin kirjoituksia.
Educating for Sustainability in Schools and Society
This accessibly written introduction, ideal for courses in both education and environmental studies, establishes the idea and history of ecopedagogy as a social and educational movement for sustainability. Author Richard Kahn then turns his attention to critically examine both the pros and cons of the current sustainability developments in several major contemporary educational sectors. Ultimately he provides a powerful illustration for how the notion of ecopedagogy as a form of ongoing education can offer emancipatory critiques of schools, educational policy, and institutional and organizational culture.
This accessibly written introduction, ideal for courses in both education and environmental studies, establishes the idea and history of ecopedagogy as a social and educational movement for sustainability.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ecopedagogy movement is an outgrowth of developments in critical pedagogy, a body of educational ideas and practices influenced by the philosopher, Paulo Freire. Following Freire, ecopedagogy's mission is to develop a robust appreciation for the collective potentials of being human and to foster social justice throughout the world, but it does so as part of a future-oriented, ecological political vision that radically opposes the globalization of ideologies such as neoliberalism and imperialism, on the one hand, and which attempts to foment forms of critical ecoliteracy, on the other. Additionally, ecopedagogy has as one of its goals the realization of culturally relevant forms of knowledge grounded in normative concepts such as sustainability, planetarity (i.e. identifying as an earthling), and biophilia (i.e. love of all life).
