Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation

A Proposal for an Expanded Curriculum
Herausgeber: Saeverot, Herner

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Produktbeschreibung

Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic analysis of problems and solutions regarding the most pressing threats that humankind is facing. The book makes a case for the importance of education responding to significant threats; including climate change, pandemics, decline in global biodiversity, overpopulation, egoism, ideologies, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, inequality, artificial intelligence, and ignorance and the distortion of truth. Written by leading experts in their field based on cutting-edge research, the chapters explore these issues and offer suggestions for how education can address these problems in the future. This groundbreaking and highly topical book will be an essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education research, environmental studies, educational politics and organizational management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9780367894856
• ISBN-10: 0367894858
• Artikelnr.: 62268809

Autorenporträt

Herner Saeverot is Professor of Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, and Professor II at NLA University College in Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Basic Constructs in the Science of Sustainability Education 2 SSE-Based
Frame of Reference. Outlines for a Global Curriculum: Turning Existential
Threats into Resources 3 Climate change. Foundations for a Transformative
Learning Agenda 4 Biodiversity. The Decline in Global Biodiversity and How
Education Can be Part of the Solution 5 Overpopulation: A Century of Debate
that Deserves Re-Examination 6 Infectious Disease, Pandemics, and
Education. From Miasms to Covid-19 7 Infectious Disease Threats-Antibiotic
Resistance, Covid-19 and Future Pandemics 8 Holding Oneself in the World:
Is there a Need for Good Egoism? 9 Inequality: Education, Opportunity and
Existential Threat 10 Ideologies, Threats and Sustainability. How can
Education and Knowledge of the Unforeseen Help Reduce the Threat Posed by
Ideologies? 11 Understanding the Threat of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
Warfare 12 Artificial Intelligence: Is the Power Matched with
Responsibility? 13 Ignorance and Truth Afterword