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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829053603321

Autore

Clarke Paul <1961-, >

Titolo

Education for sustainability : becoming naturally smart / / Paul Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-48767-0

1-280-68335-X

9786613660299

1-136-48768-9

0-203-13662-4

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

333.7071

Soggetti

Environmental education

Environmental ethics - Study and teaching

Environmentalism

Public schools

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-133) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Exploration one : rethinking our relationship with the environment -- Exploration two : is education fit for purpose if the purpose is sustainable living? -- Exploration three : how can community help schools to live with uncertainty? -- Exploration four : open source living : when sustainability is the way of life -- Exploration five : can we create schools of sustainability? -- Exploration six: the urban fix : sustainable cities, sustainable minds -- Exploration seven : our great work : education for sustainability.

Sommario/riassunto

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 sc