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SUSTAINABILITY FRONTIERS
CRITICAL AND TRANSFORMATIVE VOICES FROM THE BORDERLANDS OF SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION |
| By: |
David Selby (Editor), Fumiyo Kagawa (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3866494769 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783866494763 |
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| Publisher: |
VERLAG BARBARA BUDRICH |
| Pub. date: |
2 May, 2012 |
| Pages: |
295 |
| Description: |
Education for sustainable development - the educational offshoot of the concept of 'sustainable development' - has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. This book applies a critical lens to the field and finds it wanting in many regards. Largely accepting the prevailing neo-liberal global marketplace agenda, many academics still shy away from confronting rampant consumerism as a key factor in fomenting an unsustainable world. The neo-liberal agenda emphasizes technological, scientific, and policy dimensions, paying insufficient heed to social and axiological domains. Pivotally, it continues to embrace a mechanistic world view rather than a holistic or ecological one and, as such, appropriates problem as cure in its proposals and programs. Its discourse is overwhelmingly occidental, occluding the voice of the South. The book's contributors speak from the borderlands of sustainability-related education and offer insights, ideas, and propo |
| Synopsis: |
Education for sustainable development, the educational offshoot of the concept of 'sustainable development', has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. The authors apply a critical lens to the field and find it wanting in many regards. |
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Germany |
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Verlag Barbara Budrich |
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Returnable |
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