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Education for global survival: The emergence of biocentric education.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Education for global survival: The emergence of biocentric education./
Author:	Baker, Jeff Jordan.
Description:	130 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-04, page: 1947.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International47-04.
Subject:	Education, Philosophy of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MR45748
ISBN:	9780494457481

Education for global survival: The emergence of biocentric education.
Baker, Jeff Jordan.

Education for global survival: The emergence of biocentric education. - 130 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-04, page: 1947.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2008.

In this thesis I develop a conceptual framework for biocentric education as an educational response to global crises. Biocentric education is based on the value and concept of life as a source of common ground from which intercultural dialogue and collaborative action on global issues may ensue. I argue that today's humanitarian and ecological crises are being exacerbated by the ideological dominance of neoliberalism, where human development is pursued through unending accumulation of profit. I critique neoliberalism as reductionist due to its exclusive focus on economic systems and therefore as an inadequate response to systemic global problems. Today's popular conception of life as discretely bounded in living organisms is also based largely in the reductionist paradigm. I draw on complexity thinking to develop a systems view of life as a response to these reductionist tendencies and suggest formal education as site of cultural evolution toward biocentric complexity thinking.

ISBN: 9780494457481Subjects--Topical Terms:

783746
Education, Philosophy of.

Education for global survival: The emergence of biocentric education.
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