Education for sustainability becoming naturally smart
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 solution...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Routledge
2012
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 schoo |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 137 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1136487689 9781136487675 9781136487682 0203136624 9780203136621 |