Refecting on Place: Environmental Education as Decolonisation

Autor/inn/en	Thornton, Simone; Graham, Mary; Burgh, Gilbert
Titel	Refecting on Place: Environmental Education as Decolonisation
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35 (2019) 3, S.239-249 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Thornton, Simone)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
Schlagwörter	Place Based Education; Environmental Education; Climate; Indigenous Knowledge + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Klima
Abstract	We argue that to face climate change, all education, from kindergarten to tertiary, needs to be underpinned by environmental education. Moreover, as a site of "reframing," education when coupled with philosophy is a possible site of infuencing "societal reframing" in order to re-examine our relations to nature or our natural environment. However, we contend that as philosophy has been largely absent from curricula, it is vital to redress this issue. Further, the environment cannot be viewed simply as subject matter for study but, reconceptualised in the Indigenous sense as Place. Only in this way can we overcome the human-nature divide. We conclude that educators must look for what Plumwood calls 'experiences that do not ft the dominant story' to disrupt an important link in the chain of climate change by developing 'traitorous identities' able to challenge the dominant culture. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01