Education, the Environment and Sustainability

This book tackles questions about the metaphysical and ethical foundations of our concern for our planet, and about educational and pedagogical implications. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Ethics and Education.

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Kai Horsthemke is Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His monographs include The Moral Status and Rights of Animals (2010), Animals and African Ethics (2015), Animal Rights Education (2018), Indigenous Knowledge: Philosophical and Educational Considerations (2021), and The Meaning of Death (forthcoming).

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Introduction: Education, the environment and sustainability 1. The task of education as we confront the potential for social and ecological collapse 2. 'Landing on Earth': An educational project for the presentA response to Vanessa Andreotti 3. Education, anthropocentrism, and interspecies sustainability: Confronting institutional anxieties in omnicidal times 4. Animal advocacy, fear and loathing in academia: A response to Helena Pedersen 5. Be the village: Exploring the ethics of having children 6. Got milk? From Growing strong bones to nurturing idealized subjectivities 7. Psychoanalytic ecofeminist Dorothy Dinnerstein: Theorizing the roots of rapacity 8. Educating in and for uncertainty: Climate science, human evolution and the legacy of Arne Naess as guidance for ecological practice 9. Co-creation in the commonwealth: Understanding right relationship in place 10. Youth power youth movements: Myth, activism, and democracy 11. White, green futures 12. Spiritual exercises in times of climate change