Retrieving Nature - Bonnett, Michael
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In this timely and challenging book, Michael Bonnett asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. He shows that the kind of searching enquiry needed to address this question exposes profound metaphysical issues about the meaning of nature and our relationship to it. The resolution of these issues, he suggests, is decisive for our understanding of ourselves and of our place in the greater scheme of things. Retrieving Nature explores the idea of a right relationship with nature where sustainability is thought of not simply as a policy but as a frame of mind. It argues that this…mehr

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In this timely and challenging book, Michael Bonnett asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. He shows that the kind of searching enquiry needed to address this question exposes profound metaphysical issues about the meaning of nature and our relationship to it. The resolution of these issues, he suggests, is decisive for our understanding of ourselves and of our place in the greater scheme of things. Retrieving Nature explores the idea of a right relationship with nature where sustainability is thought of not simply as a policy but as a frame of mind. It argues that this frame of mind is an essential feature of authentic human consciousness, going to the heart of knowledge, truth and value. In this way, the book develops a post-humanist perspective that poses fundamental questions about the nature, purpose and practice of education.
Autorenporträt
Michael Bonnett is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the book Children's Thinking (1994).
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"This elegantly written and powerfully documented work by one ofBritain's most original philosophers of education is perhapsthe first book-length philosophical enquiry into environmentaleducation. But it is much more than that for, as the author pointsout, 'a right relationship with nature lies at the heart ofenvironment education' - a relationship that poseschallenges to our very conceptions of nature, rationality, valueand human being. These are challenges to which Michael Bonnettrises in an intriguing and compelling book that will engage theattention of environmentalists, metaphysicians and moralphilosophers as much as that of teachers and educationaltheorists."
David E. Cooper, University of Durham

"It is all too common these days to answer worries aboutenvironmental problems with the refrain that any solutions mustinvolve "education". But rarely have we seen anysustained reflection on the promotion of environmentalresponsibility from the professional fields that have devotedthemselves to the serious consideration of educational theory orphilosophy. Michael Bonnet's elegantly written and wellinformed book steps into this breach and offers sound answers, andperhaps more importantly, asks the difficult questions that we mustaddress to make any headway on this important issue. For too longphilosophers of education and environmental ethicists have pursuedtheir work independently of one another. Bonnett'scontribution will help us to overcome this divide and hopefullymake good on the claim that education not only can, but must bepart of our search for environmental sustainability."
Andrew Light, New York University…mehr