Empathetic education : an ecological perspective on educational knowledge
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Empathetic education : an ecological perspective on educational knowledge
（Knowledge, identity and school life series, 7）
Falmer, 1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
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The health of our global environment is increasingly affected by our technological advance - rain, rivers, lakes, forests, soil, climate all suffer at human hands. Laura and Cotton suggest that the society committed to the technological transformation of the natural environment into an artificial one, is also, paradoxically, a society committed to its own destruction. Currently, one of the major concerns of environmental education is to address this problem more concertedly than hitherto. This book represents a radical departure from the traditional approach to environmental education. It argues that the knowledge base behind current teaching is flawed, and the resulting mind-sets and attitudes are often counterproductive to the aims of environmental education.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Challenging the Contemporary Paradigm of Educational Knowledge
- 1. The Price we Pay for Technology
- 2. Why Educational Knowledge is Neither Theory Free Nor Value Free
- 3. Educational Ideology and Indoctrination
- 4. The Reductionist Ghost in the Educational Machines
- 5. Towards a Reconstruction of the Foundations of Environmental Education
- 6. Extending the Boundaries of Educational Knowledge
- 7. The Epistemic Resacrilization of Nature
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