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A snowball in hell? Ecological educa...

Hewett, Ronald Gant.

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A snowball in hell? Ecological education in a postmodern age .

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A snowball in hell? Ecological education in a postmodern age ./
作者:	Hewett, Ronald Gant.
面頁冊數:	207 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-04, Section: A, page: 1380.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-04A.
標題:	Education, Curriculum and Instruction. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3259680
ISBN:	9781109974775

A snowball in hell? Ecological education in a postmodern age .
Hewett, Ronald Gant.

A snowball in hell? Ecological education in a postmodern age . - 207 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-04, Section: A, page: 1380.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.

Awareness of the ecological crisis has undeniably increased during the past three or four decades. Nevertheless, despite some local and regional improvements, the global crisis has worsened over this period. This paradoxical situation of pervasive awareness of environmental problems and predominantly cosmetic, ineffectual responses to them is attributable, at least in part, to the social and cultural conditions associated with postmodernity.

ISBN: 9781109974775Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a This study is a theoretical investigation of the social and cultural context of the ecological crisis. It involves an exploration of three interrelated narratives that have become dominant in postmodernity---the end of history myth, neoliberalism, and the rhetoric of economic globalization---and demonstrates how each contributes to ongoing social and environmental degradation. This study also shows how these postmodern narratives inform the prevailing assumption that the primary purpose of education and the proper function of schools (especially the public schools) is to promote economic competitiveness in the new global economy. But if the new global economy is accelerating the pace of environmental destruction, and if much of the instruction that goes on in schools in the United States seeks to develop in students the skills needed to compete more effectively in this new economy, then it is not entirely hyperbolic to suggest that academic success in school amounts to ecological failure.
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