Jane Roland Martin (University of Massachusetts Boston, Emerita, US

Preserving Planet Earth

Changing Human Culture with Lessons from the Past

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book encourages readers to acknowledge humanityâ s contribution to the environmental crisis, proposing a way forward by exploring the power of ordinary people to bring about cultural change. It will appeal to students and teachers as well as general readers interested in environmental studies, philosophy, and education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 233mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781032660080
• ISBN-10: 1032660082
• Artikelnr.: 69790880

Autorenporträt

Jane Roland Martin is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Massachusetts in Boston with fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, the Radcliffe Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. She also received the John Dewey Society's 2013 Outstanding Career Achievement Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: History Lessons 1. The Martin Luther Story 2. The Greta Thunberg
Story 3. The Mahatma Gandhi Story 4. The Rosa Parks Story Part 2: A Looming
Tragedy 5. The Dreadful Deed: Matricide 6. The Fatal Flaw: Hubris 7. The
Denial: Six Varieties 8. The Present-Day Chorus 9. The Unraveling Part 3:
Can We Change Human Culture and Ourselves? 10. Yes, We Can 11. Is Human
Nature Humancentric? 12. Prepared and Counter-Prepared Learning 13.
Becoming a New Person 14. Individual Learning and Cultural Change Part 4:
Wage Education Not War 15. Close the Knowing/Doing Gap 16. Whose Knowledge
Is It Anyway? 17. Facts Are Not Enough 18. What Do We Do With Miseducation
When We Find It? 19. Amplify and Converge Part 5: Goodbye Hubris, Hello
ENVIRONMENTALITY 20. Needed: A Paradigm Shift 21. Expanding the Definition
of "We" 22. Doing Something Rather Than Nothing 23. Acting as One