Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development A History of Ideas

• Main Authors: Scott, William, Vare, Paul
• Format: eBook Book Publication
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics; Education for Sustainable Development; Educational Environment; Environment; Environment & Business; Environmental education; Environmental history; Environmental management; History; Human ecology; Leading Education; Learning; Management & auxiliary services; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Sky; Environmental Education; Enlightenment; Sustainable Development; Humboldt; Cambridge; Strong; Forest Schools; Follow; Debt; America; UN; North; Holds; Blossomed; EE; USA; Poor; Live; Natural World; Spring; Climate Change; Rio; Environmental Issues; Main

This book is an introduction to the long history of human learning, the environment and sustainable development - about our struggles with the natural world: first for survival, then for dominance, currently for self-preservation, and in future perhaps, even for long-term, mutually beneficial co-exi...

Table of Contents:

• Appendix 3: A brief history of environment and learning in Germany -- Appendix 4: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals -- Index
• Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Past historic -- 1. Humans being -- 2. Playing and learning in the Mesolithic -- 3. Earth Mother - Mother Earth -- 4. In the beginning -- 5. Virgil's Georgics -- 6. How the Greenland Norse chose -- 7. Science and the ecological imagination -- 8. Francis Bacon and the interrogation of nature -- 9. Descartes, the world and the method -- 10. Rousseau wrote Emile -- Pestalozzi made it real -- 11. The 18th-century (sustainable) development goals -- 12. The English Romantic poets -- 13. Public education and the Industrial Revolution -- 14. Alexander von Humboldt -- 15. John Clare's enclosure -- 16. Marx in nature -- 17. Thoreau and Walden -- 18. The significance of John Muir -- 19. Friluftsliv -- 20. Patrick Geddes -- 21. John Dewey and the ecology oflearning -- 22. Blut und Boden -- 23. This land is your land … -- Part II: Present imperfect -- 24. Rachel Carson's silence -- 25. The road to Tbilisi -- 26. Gaia -- 27. Forest school origins -- 28. The early UN conferences -- 29. Prepositions and the environment -- 30. How deep is your ecology? -- 31. Environmentally educated teachers -- 32. Are significant life experiences always significant? -- 33. Faith, hope, charity and the ecological crisis -- 34. The Earth Charter -- 35. The behaviour of models -- 36. The coming of ESD -- 37. Green still does not always mean go -- 38. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? -- 39. In competence we trust -- 40. Environmental learning -- 41. Extinction? Rebellion? -- Part III: Future possible -- 42. Behind the cenes -- 43. Being human -- Appendix 1: A brief history of environment and learning in England -- Appendix 2: A brief history of environment and learning in the USA