Monday, 10 September 2012

C.A.Bowers - Educating for Eco-Justice and Community

It is possible that educational theorists continue to frame the issue of social justice in ways that continue to exclude environmental issues because they write from a largely urban perspective.  ……
 
The source of water, the condition of the soil that yields the fruits and vegetables, the ecosystems and human communities displaced or degraded by the technologies that provide the city’s energy are out of sight, and thus largely out of mind. …..
 
Without an everyday awareness of the complex relationships between ecosystems and the political economy of transforming Nature into goods and services, the average urban dweller’s perception of reality depends largely on images designed to promote consumerism.
 
Today’s Green Thought comes from the introduction of the 2001 book ‘Educating for Eco-Justice and Community’ by the american education-theorist C.A.Bowers.

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