Learning, environment and sustainable development : a history of ideas / William Scott and Paul Vare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, William, 1946- author.

Vare, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"This book is an introduction to the long history of human learning, the environment and sustainable development - about our struggles with the natural world; first for survival, then for dominance, currently for self-preservation, and in future perhaps, even for long-term, mutually-beneficial co-existence. It charts the long arc of human-environment relationships through the specific lens of human learning, putting on record many of the people, ideas and events that have contributed, often unwittingly, to the global movement for sustainable development. Human learning has always had a focus on the environment. It's something we've been engaged in ever since we began interacting with our surroundings and thinking about the impacts, outcomes and consequences of our actions and interactions. This unique story, told by the authors is episodic rather than a connected, linear account; it probes, questions and re-examines familiar issues from novel perspectives, and looks ahead. The book is of particular interest to those studying (and teaching) courses with a focus on socio-economic and environmental sustainability, and NGOs whose work brings them face-to-face with the general public and social enterprises"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of illustrations

Abbreviations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Past historic

1. Humans being

2. Playing and learning in the Mesolithic

3. Earth Mother

Mother Earth

4. In the beginning

5. Virgil's Georgics

6. How the Greenland Norse chose

7. Science and the ecological imagination

8. Francis Bacon and the interrogation of nature

9. Descartes, the world and the method

10. Rousseau wrote Emile

Pestalozzi made it real

11. The 18th-century (sustainable) development goals

12. The English Romantic poets

13. Public education and the Industrial Revolution

14. Alexander von Humboldt

15. John Clare's enclosure

16. Marx in nature

17. Thoreau and Walden

18. The significance of John Muir

19. Friluftsliv

20. Patrick Geddes

21. John Dewey and the ecology oflearning

22. Blut und Boden

23. This land is your land ...

Part II: Present imperfect

24. Rachel Carson's silence

25. The road to Tbilisi

26. Gaia

27. Forest school origins

28. The early UN conferences

29. Prepositions and the environment

30. How deep is your ecology?

31. Environmentally educated teachers

32. Are significant life experiences always significant?

33. Faith, hope, charity and the ecological crisis

34. The Earth Charter

35. The behaviour of models

36. The coming of ESD

37. Green still does not always mean go

38. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?

39. In competence we trust

40. Environmental learning

41. Extinction? Rebellion?

Part III: Future possible

42. Behind the cenes

43. Being human

Appendix 1: A brief history of environment and learning in England

Appendix 2: A brief history of environment and learning in the USA

Appendix 3: A brief history of environment and learning in Germany

Appendix 4: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-27370-3

1-000-20796-X

9780367221935

1-000-20802-8

9780429273704

OCLC:

1156426561