Planting nature : trees and the manipulation of environmental stewardship in America / / Shaul E. Cohen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780448703321
• Autore: Cohen Shaul Ephraim <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 9786612357084; 1-282-35708-5; 0-520-92991-8; 1-59734-809-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 333.75/152/0973
• Soggetti: Afforestation - United States; Afforestation - Environmental aspects - United States; Afforestation - Government policy - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Taking control of nature -- Planting patriotism, cultivating institutions -- The National Arbor Day Foundation: modifying the natural world -- American forests: planting the future -- Uncle Sam plants for you -- The greatest good -- Celebritrees.
• Sommario/riassunto: Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment. As we attempt to cope with environmental crises, trees are increasingly enlisted with great fervor as agents of our stewardship over nature. In this innovative and impassioned book, Shaul E. Cohen exposes the way that environmental stewardship is undermined through the manipulation of trees and the people who plant them by a partnership of big business, the government, and tree-planting groups. He reveals how positive associations and symbols that have been invested in trees are exploited by an interlocking network of government agencies, private timber companies, and nongovernmental organizations to subvert the power of people who think that they are building a better world. Planting Nature details the history of tree planting in the United States and the ; rise of popular sentiment around trees, including the development of the Arbor Day holiday and tree-planting groups such as the National Arbor Day Foundation and American Forests. Drawing from internal papers, government publications, advertisements, and archival documents, Cohen illustrates how organizations promote tree planting as a way of shifting attention away from the causes of environmental problems to their symptoms, masking business-as-usual agendas. Ultimately, Planting Nature challenges the relationships between a "green" public, the organizations that promote their causes, and the "powers that be," providing a cautionary tale of cooperation and deception that cuts across the political spectrum.

Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe / / edited by John Holford, Pepka Boyadjieva, Sharon Clancy, Günter Hefler, Ivana Studená

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910682535503321
• Autore: Holford John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
• ISBN: 9783031141096; 3031141091
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXXVIII, 467 p. 27 illus.)
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, , 2524-6321
• Classificazione: EDU002000EDU031000EDU034000EDU040000SOC026000
• Disciplina: 370; 374.94
• Soggetti: Education; Education and state; Educational sociology; Professional education; Vocational education; Education Policy; Educational Policy and Politics; Sociology of Education; Professional and Vocational Education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe -- Lifelong Learning, the European Union, and the Social Inclusion of Young Adults: Rethinking Policy -- Bounded Agency in Policy and Action: Empowerment, Agency and Belonging -- Part II Policies, Programmes and Participation -- Vulnerability in European Lifelong Learning Policies 1992-2018: Seeing Young People as a Problem to be Fixed? -- Participation in Adult Learning: System Characteristics and Individuals’ Experiences -- Participation of Vulnerable Young Labour Market Groups in Job-Related Training: The Effect of Macro-Structural and Institutional Characteristics -- Gender Gaps in Participation in Adult Education in Europe: Examining Factors and Barriers -- Adult Education as a Pathway to Empowerment: Challenges and Possibilities -- Governing Adult Learning through Influencing Public Debate: How the Media use PIAAC Data in Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom -- Policy, Practice and Praxis: Computer-Aided Decision Support to Enable Policy Making in Lifelong Learning -- Part III Young Adults’ Learning in the Workplace and Beyond -- The Interplay of Organisational and Individual Bounded Agency in Workplace Learning: A Framework Approach -- Working and Learning in the Retail Sector: A Cross-Country Comparative View -- Organisational and Individual Agency in Workplace Learning in the European Metal Sector -- Work and Learning in the Adult Education Sector: A Cross Country Comparative View -- Speaking Up: How Early Career Workers Engage in Fighting for Better Working Conditions by Joining Youth-Led Social Movement Organisations -- Early Career Workers’ Agency in the Workplace: Learning And Beyond in Cross-Country Comparative Perspective -- Part IV Conclusion -- Adult Education, Learning Citizens, andthe Lessons of Enliven.
• Sommario/riassunto: This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on enduring and inclusive institutional networks, and when jobs encourage and reward the acquisition of skills. Using innovative qualitative and quantitative methods, the contributors develop a critical perspective on dominant policies, investigating – across the European Union and Australia – how ‘vulnerable’ young adults experience programmes designed to improve their ‘employability’, and how ‘skills for jobs’ policies squeeze out wider – and wiser – ideas of what education and training should do. Chapters show why some provision works for those with poor educational backgrounds, why labour market and educational institutions matter so much, how adult education can empower and expand people’s agency, and the challenges of using artificial intelligence in lifelong learning policy-making. Several investigate the pivotal role of workplace learning in organisational life, and in learning during ‘emerging adulthood’. Important comparative studies of workplace learning in the metals, retail and adult education sectors show the role of management, trade unions and social movements in young adults’ learning.