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9781405108836

Retrieving Nature Education for a Post-Humanist Age

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    9781405108836

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    1405108835

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-08-27
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This timely and challenging book asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. A timely and challenging book, which asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. Puts forward an innovative thesis about our relationship with nature. Poses fundamental questions about the nature, purpose and practice of education.

Author Biography

Michael Bonnett is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the book Children’s Thinking (1994).

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: a Tangled Web
1(12)
Metaphysics, Education and Environmental Concern
13(13)
Notions of Nature
26(16)
Retreat from Reality
42(19)
Nature as our Primordial Reality
61(16)
Nature's Intrinsic Value
77(11)
Nature and Knowing
88(15)
Towards an Environmental Ethos for Education
103(17)
Education for Sustainable Development: Sustainability as a Frame of Mind
120(16)
Issues for Environmental Education
136(15)
Education for a Post-Humanist Age: the Question of Human Dwelling
151(18)
Bibliography 169(6)
Index 175

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