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Social Ecology and Education addresses "ecological understanding"
as a transformative educational issue: a learning response to
emerging insights into social-ecological relationships and the
future of life on our planet. In the face of the existential
threats posed by climate change, loss of biodiversity, pandemids
and the associated ecological and social challenges; there is a
need to extend our responses beyond scientific inquiry and
technological initiatives. This book seeks to move the dialogue
towards a deeper and broader understanding of the complexities of
the issues involved. To achieve this, the book discusses issues
rarely addressed through programs in "Education for Sustainability"
and "Environmental Education," such as student defined knowledge
systems, deep engagement with the implications of indigenous
understandings, climate change as symptomatic of broad
epistemological problems, social disengagement and differentiated
barriers to meaningful change. This work is enriched by its focus
on the learning and the learning systems that have led to our
current predicament. This book seeks to initiate considerations of
this kind, to invigorate education for sustainable, equitable,
healthy and meaningful futures. As such, this book will be of great
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of
education and environmental courses.
Social Ecology and Education addresses "ecological understanding"
as a transformative educational issue: a learning response to
emerging insights into social-ecological relationships and the
future of life on our planet. In the face of the existential
threats posed by climate change, loss of biodiversity, pandemids
and the associated ecological and social challenges; there is a
need to extend our responses beyond scientific inquiry and
technological initiatives. This book seeks to move the dialogue
towards a deeper and broader understanding of the complexities of
the issues involved. To achieve this, the book discusses issues
rarely addressed through programs in "Education for Sustainability"
and "Environmental Education," such as student defined knowledge
systems, deep engagement with the implications of indigenous
understandings, climate change as symptomatic of broad
epistemological problems, social disengagement and differentiated
barriers to meaningful change. This work is enriched by its focus
on the learning and the learning systems that have led to our
current predicament. This book seeks to initiate considerations of
this kind, to invigorate education for sustainable, equitable,
healthy and meaningful futures. As such, this book will be of great
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of
education and environmental courses.
Social ecology provides a holistic framework for change, based on
the interrelationships between the personal, social, environmental
and `spiritual'. It helps understand how we got here, and how to
realise more sustainable, caring futures. Students from all
disciplines can use this valuable resource to help to enrich their
learning with insights and principles from social ecology.
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