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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337752503321

Autore

Lysgaard Jonas Andreasen

Titolo

Dark Pedagogy : Education, Horror and the Anthropocene / / by Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard, Stefan Bengtsson, Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 164 p. 12 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment, , 2662-6519

Disciplina

333.7071

370.115

Soggetti

Environmental education

Education—Philosophy

Philosophy and social sciences

Environmental and Sustainability Education

Educational Philosophy

Philosophy of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction: Living in Dark Times -- PART I. The horror of education -- Chapter 2. Denial -- Chapter 3. Insanity -- Chapter 4. Death -- PART II. Towards dark pedagogy -- Chapter 5. Dark pedagogy between denial and insanity -- Chapter 6. Dark pedagogy in the Anthropocene -- Chapter 7. A pedagogy of vulnerability.

Sommario/riassunto

Dark pedagogy explores how different perspectives can be incorporated into a darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education. Drawing on the work of the classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and new materialist insights of speculative realism, the authors link Lovecraft’s ‘tales of the horrible’ to the current spectres of environmental degradation, climate change, and pollution. In doing so, they draw parallels between how humans have always related to the ‘horrible’ things that are scaled beyond our understanding and how education can respond to an era of climate catastrophe in the age of the Anthropocene. A new and darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education is thus



developed: using the tripartite reaction pattern of denial, insanity and death to frame the narrative, the book subsequently examines the specific challenges of potentials of developing education and pedagogy for an age of mass extinction. This unflinching book will appeal to students and scholars of dark pedagogies as well as those interested in environment and sustainability education.