Education, Sustainability and the Ecological Social Imaginary Connective Education and Global Change /

• Main Author: Buckles, Jeff (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; Sustainable development.; Environmental sociology.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education-Curricula.; Education-Philosophy.; Sociology of Education.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Sociology.; Curriculum Studies.; Educational Philosophy.

This book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action. Land, oceans, polar regions and the atmosphere are all being deeply affected by the human population's lifestyle: what should the educ...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Setting the Scene: Domains, Challenges and the Social Imaginary
• Chapter 3. The Modern Social Imaginary
• Chapter 4. Education in the Modern Social Imaginary
• Chapter 5. The Major Challenges of the 21st Century?
• Chapter 6. The Challenges of the 21st Century and the Modern Social Imaginary
• Chapter 7. The Ecological Social Imaginary
• Chapter 8. Education in the Ecological Social Imaginary
• Chapter 9. Conclusion.