Examines the overlapping goals, values, and ideas in peace and environmental education.
Acknowledging the twin notions of possibility and chance that current themselves in modern social and ecological crises, this publication explores how either peace and environmental schooling can rework the best way we expect and what we worth. The e-book outlines the hyperlink among social violence and ecological degradation and the necessity to teach for the aim of attaining social and ecological peace. experts in peace and environmental schooling provide a holistic and built-in strategy on instructing approximately those difficulties and demanding situations. in addition they supply academic options, comparable to curricular frameworks and pedagogical suggestions acceptable for either formal and casual settings, and case stories and examples that illustrate their application.
“At as soon as compact and bold, this striking e-book examines a wide selection of texts that take care of problems with the Earth’s quickly dwindling common resources.” — CHOICE
"This ebook bargains the main finished and cogently argued case for conjoining environmental, social justice, and peace schooling that i've got encountered. The authors current a multifaceted imaginative and prescient of why such schooling is required and what it could possibly appear like. i stopped every one bankruptcy with a feeling of highbrow pleasure and gratitude. i glance ahead to utilizing the ebook in my classes." — Gregory A. Smith, coeditor of Ecological schooling in motion: On Weaving schooling, tradition, and the Environment
Contributors contain Abelardo Brenes, Peter Blaze Corcoran, Ian Harris, Fanny Heymann, Patricia M. Mische, Isabel Orellana, Lucie Sauvé, Frans C. Verhagen, Arjen E. J. Wals, and Anita L. Wenden.
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