Education for sustainability : becoming naturally smart / Paul Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Paul, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental education.

Environmental ethics--Study and teaching.

Environmental ethics.

Environmentalism.

Public schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Becoming naturally smart

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this book, Paul Clarke argues that in order to live sustainably we need to learn how to live and flourish in our environment in a manner that uses finite resources with ecologically informed discretion. Education is perfectly placed to create the conditions for innovative and imaginative solutions and to provide the formulas that ensure that everyone becomes naturally smart; but to achieve this, we need to recognise that an education that is not grounded in a full understanding of our relationship with the natural world is no education at all. In other words, a total transformation of sc

Contents:

Exploration one : rethinking our relationship with the environment

Exploration two : is education fit for purpose if the purpose is sustainable living?

Exploration three : how can community help schools to live with uncertainty?

Exploration four : open source living : when sustainability is the way of life

Exploration five : can we create schools of sustainability?

Exploration six: the urban fix : sustainable cities, sustainable minds

Exploration seven : our great work : education for sustainability.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-133) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613660299

9781136487675

1136487670

9781280683350

128068335X

9781136487682

1136487689

9780203136621

0203136624

OCLC:

804664953