Education and Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

Living and Learning in Interesting Times
Redaktion: Kagawa, Fumiyo; Selby, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already in motion. In this volume, contributors review and reflect upon social learning from and within their field of educational expertise in response to the concerns over climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135235420
• Artikelnr.: 38262611

Autorenporträt

David Selby is an Adjunct Professor at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also Founding Director of Sustainability Frontiers, an international not-for-profit organization addressing climate change education, sustainability education and eco-pedagogy. Fumiyo Kagawa is currently Research Director of Sustainability Frontiers. Her doctoral studies examined the interface between emergency education and education for sustainability.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The Fatal Complacency Desmond Tutu. Introduction Fumiyo Kagawa
and David Selby 1. Climate Change Education and Communication: A Critical
Perspective on Obstacles and Resistances Edgar González-Gaudiano and Pablo
Meira-Cartea 2. 'Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird': Sustainability-related
Education in Interesting Times David Selby 3. Peace Learning: Universalism
in Interesting Times Magnus Haavelsrud 4. Climate Injustice: How Should
Education Respond? Heila Lotz-Sisitka 5. The Environment, Climate Change,
Ecological Sustainability and Anti-Racist Education George J. Sefa Dei 6.
Learning in Emergencies: Defense of Humanity for a Livable World Fumiyo
Kagawa 7. Sustainable Democracy: Issues, Challenges and Proposals for
Citizenship Education in an Age of Climate Change Ian Davies and James Pitt
8. School Improvement in Transition: An Emerging Agenda for Interesting
Times Jane Reed 9. Critique, Create and Act: Environmental Adult and Social
Movement Learning in an Era of Climate Change Darlene E. Clover and Budd L.
Hall 10. Transforming the Ecological Crisis: Challenges for Faiths and
Interfaith Education in Interesting Times Toh Swee-Hin (S.H.Toh) and
Virginia Cawagas 11. Public Health Threats in a Changing Climate: Meeting
the Challenges through Sustainable Health Education Janet Richardson and
Margaret Wade 12. Weaving Change: Improvising Global Wisdom in Interesting
and Dangerous Times Wendy Agnew. Climate Change Education: A Critical
Agenda for Interesting Times Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby