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Wolff, Lili-Ann

 
9783843387309: Nature and Sustainability: An Educational Study with Rousseau and Foucault
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ISBN 10 : 3843387303 ISBN 13 : 9783843387309
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The human impact on the natural world is unsustainable, and the tendency to assign education the role of remedying the problem is increasing. However, since sustainability touches fundamentals of human life on many levels, effective education becomes a challenge. This book gives a historical and philosophical view of education that deals with nature and sustainability and highlights the ethical dilemmas that arise if we expect education to be the main promoter of sustainability. Lili-Ann Wolff discusses these issues by drawing from two of the most notable scholars in the Western intellectual tradition, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Michel Foucault. Rousseau's writings offer excellent examples of the role of both ethics and education in dealing with sustainability. And Foucault sets the stage for understanding such fundamental ethical and educational issues as matters of power that act in complex networks on both individual and social levels. The book meets the needs and interests of a diverse audience from educational, environmental and philosophical disciplines, but also many other readers having an interest in contemporary discussions about education, sustainability and nature.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The human impact on the natural world is unsustainable, and the tendency to assign education the role of remedying the problem is increasing. However, since sustainability touches fundamentals of human life on many levels, effective education becomes a challenge. This book gives a historical and philosophical view of education that deals with nature and sustainability and highlights the ethical dilemmas that arise if we expect education to be the main promoter of sustainability. Lili-Ann Wolff discusses these issues by drawing from two of the most notable scholars in the Western intellectual tradition, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Michel Foucault. Rousseau's writings offer excellent examples of the role of both ethics and education in dealing with sustainability. And Foucault sets the stage for understanding such fundamental ethical and educational issues as matters of power that act in complex networks on both individual and social levels. The book meets the needs and interests of a diverse audience from educational, environmental and philosophical disciplines, but also many other readers having an interest in contemporary discussions about education, sustainability and nature.

Biographie de l'auteur

The author is a lecturer at Åbo Akademi University?s Faculty of Education in Vaasa, Finland, where she has written this doctoral thesis. She has studied education, philosophy, geography, biology, environmental sciences, and mathematics at the University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland and at Umeå University, Sweden (MEd, MA, BSc).

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3843387303
ISBN 13 
9783843387309
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
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