Retrieving Nature Education for a

This timely and challenging book asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. A timely and challenging book, which asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. Puts forward an innovative thesis about our relationship with nature. Poses fundamental questions about the nature, purpose and practice of education.

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).

Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction: a Tangled Web

1

(12)

Metaphysics, Education and Environmental Concern

13

(13)

Notions of Nature

26

(16)

Retreat from Reality

42

(19)

Nature as our Primordial Reality

61

(16)

Nature's Intrinsic Value

77

(11)

Nature and Knowing

88

(15)

Towards an Environmental Ethos for Education

103

(17)

Education for Sustainable Development: Sustainability as a Frame of Mind

120

(16)

Issues for Environmental Education

136

(15)

Education for a Post-Humanist Age: the Question of Human Dwelling

151

(18)

Bibliography

169

(6)

Index

175

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Retrieving Nature Education for a Post-Humanist Age

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials