Empathetic education : an ecological perspective on educational knowledge

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    • Laura, R. S. (...Ronald S....)
    • Cotton, Matthew C

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Empathetic education : an ecological perspective on educational knowledge

Ronald S. Laura and Mathew C. Cotton

(Knowledge, identity and school life series, 7)

Falmer, 1999

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

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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