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Three Decades of International Guidelines for Environment-Related Education: A Critical Hermeneutic of the United Nations Discourse
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In this paper, a hermeneutical analysis of United Nations documents concerning environmental education, which is now sub-wired to sustainable development, highlights an instrumental view of education, a resourcist conception of the environment, and an economicist view of development.Abstract:
The UNESCO-UNEP International Environmental Education Program (1975-
1995) provided impetus for developing, legitimizing, and institutionalizing
environmental education. More recently, UNESCO was mandated by the
United Nations to carry out a worldwide shift towards education for sus-
tainable development. As international organizations’ recommendations
and guidelines often act as beacons for the conception and implementation
of national formal and nonformal education programs, it is necessary to
critically appraise their content. Our hermeneutical analysis of United
Nations documents concerning environmental education, which is now sub-
sumed to sustainable development, highlights an instrumental view of edu-
cation, a resourcist conception of the environment, and an economicist view
of development. Such a worldview needs to be discussed.read more
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TL;DR: A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land as discussed by the authors, which was published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite".
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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TL;DR: A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land as discussed by the authors, which was published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite".
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