Bonnett, Michael (2007) Environmental education and the issue of nature. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 39 (6). pp. 707-721. ISSN Print: 0022-0272 Online: 1366-5839
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Abstract
Much official environmental education policy in the UK and elsewhere makes scant reference to nature as such, and the issue of our underlying attitude towards it is rarely addressed. For the most part such policy is preoccupied with the issue of meeting ‘sustainably’ what are taken to be present and future human needs. This paper considers a range of issues posed by this anthropocentric approach and will explore the view that environmental education -- indeed any education -- worthy of the name needs to bring a range of searching questions concerning nature to the attention of learners, and to encourage them to develop their own on-going responses to them. It is argued that our present environmental predicament not only provides an exciting opportunity to re-focus education on the issue of our relationship to nature, but positively requires the exploration of this issue for its long term resolution. Extensive implications for the curriculum and the culture of the school are raised.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Bonnett, Michael (2007) Environmental education and the issue of nature. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 39 (6). pp. 707-721. Journal of Curriculum Studies is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/00220270701447149 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Philosophy of education environment; education; nature; sustainable development |
| Subjects: | Departments > Education Foundations and Policy Studies |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2010 08:46 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/2494 |
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