Eco-Rational Education: An Educational Response to Environmental Crisis

Eco-Rational Education is a book that proposes an educational response to climate change, environmental degradation, and destructive human relations to ecology through the delivery of critical land-responsive environmental education. It argues that education is a powerful vehicle for social change and cultural reproduction and that the prioritization and integration of environmental education across the curriculum is essential to the development of ecologically rational citizens capable of responding to the environmental crisis.

Format: Hardback
Length: 178 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Eco-Rational Education is a comprehensive educational approach aimed at addressing climate change, environmental degradation, and destructive human relations with ecology. It proposes that education plays a vital role in driving social change and cultural reproduction, emphasizing the importance of integrating environmental education across the curriculum. Through philosophical analysis, including environmental philosophy, pragmatism, and ecofeminism, the book explores contemporary issues in education, such as inquiry-based learning as pedagogy, knowledge diversification, environmental and epistemic justice, climate change education, and citizenship education. This book is of interest to researchers and post-graduate students in social and political philosophy, educational philosophy, environmental philosophy, ethics, and teacher education.

The book argues that education is a powerful vehicle for both social change and cultural reproduction. It proposes that the prioritization and integration of environmental education across the curriculum is essential to the development of ecologically rational citizens capable of responding to the environmental crisis and an increasingly changing world. Using philosophical analysis, particularly environmental philosophy, pragmatism, and ecofeminism, the book develops an understanding of contemporary issues in education, especially inquiry-based learning as pedagogy, knowledge diversification, environmental and epistemic justice, climate change education, and citizenship education.

Eco-Rational Education will be of interest to researchers and post-graduate students of social and political philosophy, educational philosophy, as well as environmental philosophy, ethics, and teacher education.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367700782