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Educating for Eco-justice and Community (Paperback)
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Reading, writing, arithmetic - and eco-justice; We believe in
social justice. We support educational reform. Yet unless we
reframe our approaches to both, says C. A. Bowers, the social
justice attained through educational reform will only lead to more
intractable forms of consumerism and further impoverishment of our
communities. In Educating for Eco-Justice and Community Bowers
outlines a strategy for educational reform that confronts the rapid
degradation of our ecosystems by renewing the face-to-face,
intergenerational traditions that can serve as alternatives to our
hyper-consumerist, technology-driven worldview. Bowers explains how
current technological and progressive programs of educational
reform operate on deep cultural assumptions that came out of the
Enlightenment and led to the Industrial Revolution. These beliefs
frame our relationship with nature in adversarial terms, view
progress as inevitable, and elevate the individual over community,
expertise over intergenerational knowledge, and profit over
reciprocity. By making eco-justice a priority of educational
reform, we can begin to democratize developments in science and
technology in ways that eliminate ecoracism; reverse the global
processes that are worsening the economic and political inequities
between the hemispheres; expose the cultural forces that turn
aspects of daily life - from education and entertainment to work
and leisure - into market-dependent relationships; uplift knowledge
and traditions of intergenerationally connected communities; and
develop a sense of moral responsibility for the long-term
consequences of our excessive material demands. In the tradition of
Wendell Berry, David Orr, and Kirkpatrick Sale, Bowers thinks about
our place in the natural world and the current economies to show
how we can reform education and create a less consumer-driven
society.
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