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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): The turn away from ‘environment’ in environmental education?
towards education for sustainable development (ESD) in the context of environmental
ethics. While plural perspectives on ESD are encouraged both by practitioners
and researchers of EE, there is also a danger that such pluralism may sustain
dominant political ideologies and consolidated corporate power that obscure environmental
concerns. Encouraging plural interpretations of ESD may in fact lead
ecologically ill-informed teachers and students acculturated by the dominant neoliberal
ideology to underprivilege ecocentric perspective. It is argued that ESD,
with its focus on human welfare, equality, rights and fair distribution of resources
is a radical departure from the aim of EE set out by the Belgrade Charter as well
as a distinct turn towards anthropocentrically biased education. This article has
two aims: to demonstrate the...Show more This article explores the implications of the shift of environmental education (EE)
towards education for sustainable development (ESD) in the context of environmental
ethics. While plural perspectives on ESD are encouraged both by practitioners
and researchers of EE, there is also a danger that such pluralism may sustain
dominant political ideologies and consolidated corporate power that obscure environmental
concerns. Encouraging plural interpretations of ESD may in fact lead
ecologically ill-informed teachers and students acculturated by the dominant neoliberal
ideology to underprivilege ecocentric perspective. It is argued that ESD,
with its focus on human welfare, equality, rights and fair distribution of resources
is a radical departure from the aim of EE set out by the Belgrade Charter as well
as a distinct turn towards anthropocentrically biased education. This article has
two aims: to demonstrate the importance of environmental ethics for EE in general
and ESD in particular and to argue in favour of a return to instrumentalism,
based on the twinned assumptions that the environmental problems are severe
and that education of ecologically minded students could help their resolution.Show less
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- Kopnina, H.N.
- Date
- 2012
- Journal
- Environmental Education Research
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 699 - 717