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Education and the Environment

Learning to Live with Limits

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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Argues that modern schools reinforce an unsustainable worldview and offers a framework for reshaping education to support ecological awareness, interdependence, and a more sustainable society.In Education and the Environment, Gregory A. Smith offers a clear and urgent rethinking of modern education. Rather than treating environmental crisis and school reform as separate problems, Smith reveals how deeply they are connected. Our educational systems, he argues, often reflect and reinforce a worldview rooted in endless growth, competition, and consumption—precisely the mindset that has contributed to today's environmental and social challenges.With careful analysis and practical vision, Smith traces how this worldview took hold in education and shows how schools unintentionally prepare students for a society that may no longer be sustainable. He then turns toward possibility: what it would mean to reshape teaching and learning around interdependence, ecological awareness, and long-term responsibility.Blending critique with constructive pathways forward, Education and the Environment, invites educators, policymakers, and concerned readers to reconsider what schools are for—and what kind of future they are helping to create.A powerful contribution to the conversation on education, sustainability, and social change, Education and the Environment challenges us to rethink not only what we teach, but how, and why.

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Utgivningsdatum1992-10-14
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Environmental Public Policy
Antal sidor197
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791411384

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Acknowledgments 1. Changing Conditions—Changing Schools 2. Modernization and the Rejection of Interdependence 3. Schools and the Transmission of the Modern/Industrial Worldview 4. A Sustainable Worldview 5. Shaping Schools for a Sustainable Society 6. Schools for At-Risk Youth: A Starting Point for Educational Change 7. Strategies for Developing Schools for Sustainability and Mutual Support Notes Bibliography Index

"The work combines a sense of vision and practicality and touches on the major issue of the conceptual needs and limitations of comtemporary education." — Betty Reardon, Teachers College, Columbia University"While others flail at the symptoms, berating the scholastic inadequacies and outrageous injustices of America's schools, Gregory Smith goes to the heart of the matter. Our schools reflect us, our whole world view of competition and material growth, that is destroying our planet and ourselves. Step-by-step, Smith shows how we came to this impasse, how our schools reinforce it. Then, just as logically, he shows us the way out, to a saner future. By changing what we teach and how we teach it, we can produce happy, wise children, and a sustainable society. The blueprints are all here! Will we be smart enough to use them? If enough people read this book, we might just do it." — Mary E. Clark, Drucie French Cumbie Professor of Conflict Resolution, George Mason University"Gregory Smith recognizes matters of global environmental change that are hardly thought of at all in most education circles — that is, the recognition that environmental changes will force societal changes that the schools must adapt to and prepare their students to participate in. The insight of the author that our schools have a hidden curriculum that supports the modern capitalistic/industrial society which is itself slipping away and will inevitably transform as bio-geo-chemical change transforms the way the world works. We are now training our children to live in a world that cannot be sustained and will inevitably become something different. My great concern is that Smith's message is so ahead of its time that it will be ignored or rejected." — Lester W. Milbrath, Director, Research Program in Environment and Society, State University of New York at Buffalo