1st Edition
Essays on Nature and the Philosophy of Environmental Education
Foreword
Ramsey Affifi
Essays on nature and the philosophy of environmental education: an introduction
Alan Reid and Justin Dillon
Section I
1. Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education: some key themes
Michael Bonnett
2. Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)
Koichiro Misawa
3. Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts
Jani Pulkki
4. Coming to our senses: Zen and the art of ecoactivism
Heesoon Bai
5. Ecologising education beyond angels and villains
Ramsey Affifi
6. Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education
Matthew R. Farrelly
7. Environmental consciousness, nature and the philosophy of education: matters arising
Michael Bonnett
Section II
8. Normalizing catastrophe: sustainability and scientism
Michael Bonnett
9. Education for sustainability as a frame of mind
Michael Bonnett
10. Sustainability as a Frame of mind-and how to develop it
Michael Bonnett
11. Environmental education and the issue of nature
Michael Bonnett
12. Environmental concern, moral education and our place in nature
Michael Bonnett
13. Notes on the character and educational significance of environmental consciousness
Michael Bonnett
Biography
Michael Bonnett is an independent scholar who has held senior research and teaching positions in the UK universities of Cambridge, London and Bath. His work in the field of philosophy of education has been widely published.
Justin Dillon is Professor of Science and Environmental Education at University College London’s Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education. He taught in London schools for nine years before working at King’s College London, the University of Bristol and the University of Exeter.
Alan Reid is Professor of Education at Monash University, Australia. He contributes to a range of environmental and sustainability education research networks, locally and internationally. Key activities include editing the research journal, Environmental Education Research, and supporting the Global Environmental Education Partnership, an international stakeholder network.
