Refusing to settle for pigeons and parks: urban environmental education in the age of neoliberalism
| Autor: | Michael W. Derby, Sean Blenkinsop, Laura Piersol |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: | |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Education Research. 21:378-389 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5871 1350-4622 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13504622.2014.994166 |
| Popis: | The institutionalization of neoliberal reforms that began to take hold in the 1970s were by and large ‘common-sense governance’ by the 1990s. While the growing predominance of neoliberal discourse and marginalization of alternatives in environmental education is disconcerting on the level of policy, this paper explores an equally troubling phenomenon: the deepening of a neoliberal logic, such that it pervades the way we understand and relate with the world. Specifically, this paper draws upon an experience at a recent environmental education conference whereby participants were invited to explore three place-based inquiries inspired by Aldo Leopold in an urban environment: what is happening here? what has happened here? and what should happen here? Although the intention of the workshop was to explore some of the challenges involved in implementing a critical pedagogy of place, many of the participants seemed unwilling to criticize the way in which an urban downtown core suppresses the more-than-human asp... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|