1st Edition

Asian Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development

Edited By Liz Jackson Copyright 2020
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

This book critically considers what various Asian philosophies can contribute to a more substantive discourse on sustainability education and educational philosophy. The contributors examine how ‘east’ and ‘west’ interact in educational philosophy and practice in Asian contexts. As a collection, they provide a broad view of Asian sustainability thinking that is not dominated by Confucianism,... Read more

Introduction: ‘Asian’ Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development

Liz Jackson

1. Ethnic Tourism and the Big Song: Public Pedagogies and the Ambiguity of Environmental Discourse in Southwest China

Jinting Wu

2. Vernadsky meets Yulgok: A non-Western dialog on sustainability

Tamara Savelyeva

3. Rethinking the Concept of Sustainability: Hiroshima as a subject of peace education

Kanako Ide

4. Educating the Heart and the Mind: Conceptualizing inclusive pedagogy for sustainable development

Mousumi Mukherjee

5. No-Self, Natural Sustainability and Education for Sustainable Development

Chia-Ling Wang

6. Harmonizing ecological sustainability and higher education development: Wisdom from Chinese ancient education philosophy

Xiaoxia Chen

Biography

Liz Jackson is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. She is also the President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. She is the author of Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism (2014) and Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (2019). She is currently working on a third book entitled Against Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions.