On the Need to Repoliticise Environmental and Sustainability Education: Rethinking the Postpolitical Consensus

Autor/inn/en	Sund, Louise; Öhman, Johan
Titel	On the Need to Repoliticise Environmental and Sustainability Education: Rethinking the Postpolitical Consensus
Quelle	In: Environmental Education Research, 20 (2014) 5, S.639-659 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-4622
DOI	10.1080/13504622.2013.833585
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Sustainable Development; Sustainability; Politics of Education; Performance Factors; Barriers; Democratic Values; Ethics; Global Approach; Partnerships in Education; Equal Education; Political Influences; Guidelines; Educational Research; Educational Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Nachhaltigkeit; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Leistungsindikator; Ethik; Globales Denken; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Richtlinien; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Bildungsreform
Abstract	This article draws attention to the possibilities of the ongoing philosophical discussion about cosmopolitan universal values in relation to the normative challenges in environmental and sustainability education (ESE). The purpose of this paper is to clarify the philosophical problems of addressing universally sustainable responsibilities and values in ESE. Our arguments draw inspiration from the work of three poststructuralist scholars: we explore how Butler develops her claim that universal assertion requires a cultural translation, how Mouffe exposes the political in universal claim and how Todd argues that education needs to introduce students to a political language that enables them to critically reflect on their own and other groups' values and actions. In the concluding part, we suggest the following guidelines for rethinking ESE: unmasking the political dimension, re-politicising education, seeing beyond the relativist and objectivist divide and using passion as a moving force. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10