Moral Education and Environmental Concern

ISBN-13: 9781138953789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 140 str.

Michael Bonnett

Opis

This volume explores both some important ways in which moral values are embedded in much current discussion of environmental issues and, equally important, ways in which some conventional understandings of morality and moral education can be transformed by ideas that have emerged in the discourse of environmental concern.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Moral Education.

Spis treści

Introduction Michael Bonnett  1. Environmental concern, moral education and our place in nature Michael Bonnett  2. Questioning the idea of the individual as an autonomous moral agent C.A. Bowers  3. Reclaiming our moral agency through healing: a call to moral, social, environmental activists Heesoon Bai  4. Ubuntu, ukama, environment and moral education Lesley Le Grange  5. Some implications for moral education of the Confucian principle of harmony: learning from sustainability education practice in China Ling Feng and Derek Newton  6. Four slogans for cultural change: an evolving place-based, imaginative and ecological learning experience Sean Blenkinsop  7. Mountain guides: between ethics and socioeconomic trends Thierry Long, Damien Bazin and Bernard Massiéra  8. Promoting ethical and environmental awareness in vulnerable communities: a research action plan Ulisses Araújo  9. Like a swallow, moving forward in circles: on the future dimension of environmental care and education Dirk Willem Postma and Paul Smeyers

O autorze

Michael Bonnett has held senior teaching and research posts in the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, and London, UK. He has written extensively in the field of the philosophy of environmental education, with particular reference to ideas of sustainability and education for sustainable development. His book Retrieving Nature: Education for a Post-Humanist Age explores the radical potential of environmental concern for contemporary education.