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Title Greening the academy : ecopedagogy through the liberal arts / edited by Samuel Day Fassbinder, Anthony J. Nocella and Richard Kahn
Published Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 226 pages)
Contents Greening Education -- Greening Criminology -- Greening Sociology -- Greening Political Science -- Greening Philosophy1 -- Greening Economics -- Greening Geography -- Greening History -- Greening Anthropology -- Greening Communication -- Greening Literature -- Greening Dis-Ability -- Greening Feminism -- Can Higher Education Take Climate Change as Seriously as the CIA and the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London?
Summary "This is the academic Age of the Neoliberal Arts. Campuses--as places characterized by democratic debate and controversy, wide ranges of opinion typical of vibrant public spheres, and service to the larger society--are everywhere being creatively destroyed in order to accord with market and military models befitting the academic-industrial complex. While it has become increasingly clear that facilitating the sustainability movement is the great 21st century educational challenge at hand, this book asserts that it is both a dangerous and criminal development today that sustainability in higher education has come to be defined by the complex-friendly "green campus" initiatives of science, technology, engineering and management programs. By contrast, Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts takes the standpoints of those working for environmental and ecological justice in order to critique the unsustainable disciplinary limitations within the humanities and social sciences, as well as provide tactical reconstructive openings toward an empowered liberal arts for sustainability. Greening the Academy thus hopes to speak back with a collective demand that sustainability education be defined as a critical and moral vocation comprised of the diverse types of humanistic study that will benefit the well-being of our emerging planetary community and its numerous common locales. Publisher's website
Analysis Education
Education (general)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Social ecology -- Study and teaching
Environmental education.
Environmental ethics.
Sustainability.
Education -- Social aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Education.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Education -- Social aspects
Environmental education
Environmental ethics
Social ecology -- Study and teaching
Sustainability
Form Electronic book
Author Fassbinder, Samuel Day
Nocella, Anthony J., II
Kahn, Richard V., 1969-
ISBN 9789462091016
9462091013
9462090998
9789462090996