Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development A History of Ideas.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Scott, William
Other Authors: Vare, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Past historic
  • 1. Humans being
  • 2. Playing and learning in the Mesolithic
  • 3. Earth Mother
  • Mother Earth
  • 4. In the beginning
  • 5. Virgil's Georgics
  • 6. How the Greenland Norse chose
  • 7. Science and the ecological imagination
  • 8. Francis Bacon and the interrogation of nature
  • 9. Descartes, the world and the method
  • 10. Rousseau wrote Emile
  • Pestalozzi made it real
  • 11. The 18th-century (sustainable) development goals
  • 12. The English Romantic poets
  • 13. Public education and the Industrial Revolution
  • 14. Alexander von Humboldt
  • 15. John Clare's enclosure
  • 16. Marx in nature
  • 17. Thoreau and Walden
  • 18. The significance of John Muir
  • 19. Friluftsliv
  • 20. Patrick Geddes
  • 21. John Dewey and the ecology oflearning
  • 22. Blut und Boden
  • 23. This land is your land ...
  • Part II: Present imperfect
  • 24. Rachel Carson's silence
  • 25. The road to Tbilisi
  • 26. Gaia
  • 27. Forest school origins
  • 28. The early UN conferences
  • 29. Prepositions and the environment
  • 30. How deep is your ecology?
  • 31. Environmentally educated teachers
  • 32. Are significant life experiences always significant?
  • 33. Faith, hope, charity and the ecological crisis
  • 34. The Earth Charter
  • 35. The behaviour of models
  • 36. The coming of ESD
  • 37. Green still does not always mean go
  • 38. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?
  • 39. In competence we trust
  • 40. Environmental learning
  • 41. Extinction? Rebellion?
  • Part III: Future possible
  • 42. Behind the cenes
  • 43. Being human
  • Appendix 1: A brief history of environment and learning in England
  • Appendix 2: A brief history of environment and learning in the USA
  • Appendix 3: A brief history of environment and learning in Germany
  • Appendix 4: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals
  • Index