Soft Science Sustainability: Educating for Otherwise Futures - Couverture rigide

Utheim, Ragnhild

 
9781438496948: Soft Science Sustainability: Educating for Otherwise Futures

Synopsis

Multifaceted exploration of the dimensions of education for climate justice.

The central role of education in responding to climate change is noted by stakeholders of all kinds. Yet for education to act as a vehicle of change it must become more holistic, inclusive, critically reflexive, and transformative. Most critically, it must transcend the grip of Western hegemonic reasoning-of modern colonial habits of seeing, perceiving, relating, and structuring-as the only legitimate means of making sense of life and the earth we inhabit together. Because drivers of climate change involve multidimensional, intersecting anthropogenic processes that are at once global and local in scope and are often intimately personal in ways difficult to discern directly, educating to sustain the future will require competencies that exist beyond science and technological innovation. In Soft Science Sustainability, Ragnhild Utheim uses social cartography to explore the metacognitive, psychosocial, intercultural, collaborative, and interactive systems dimensions of what it means to sustain our common future together. The 3C cartography examines the less tangible human behaviors, thoughts and emotions, worldviews, interdependencies, complexities, and dynamic adaptability that factor into climate change and its threats to human and other-than-human life on earth.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Ragnhild Utheim is Associate Professor and Director of the School of Liberal Studies at Purchase College, The State University of New York.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781438496955: Soft Science Sustainability: Educating for Otherwise Futures

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1438496958 ISBN 13 :  9781438496955
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2024
Couverture souple