Giles Barrow

Encountering Education through Existential Challenges and Community

Re-connection and Renewal for an Ecologically based Future

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Produktbeschreibung

Directly inspired by Indian British activist Satish Kumar's 2013 seminal work 'Soil, Soul and Society', this book rethinks education in line with thoughts around the current climate crisis, the purpose of education in a post-pandemic world, and the mental health of children, teachers and youth across societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781032517315
• ISBN-10: 103251731X
• Artikelnr.: 68100362

Autorenporträt

Giles Barrow is a self-employed teacher, trainer, consultant and ecologist.

Inhaltsangabe

Arrival 1. A critique of product orientated education and a rationale for
an alternative vision incorporating sufficiency, homonomy and emancipation:
Walking the Land 2. The importance of an ecological-phenomenological
perspective in the educational encounter: From the Margins 3. Natality,
subjectification and the function of physis in education: Arrival 4.
Liminality, place-based education and the role of myth and story: Beyond
Arrival 5. The act of teaching, 'grown-up-ness' and eldership in the
educational encounter: To Whom does the student arrive? 6. Implications for
an education orientated toward connection with the existential, social and
ecological domains: For Whom is the Harvest? Coda