This book sets out to give close and careful attention to the intimate and often surprising nature of children's sustainability learning in the context of their local places. The authors draw on new materialist and posthuman theory to... more
This book sets out to give close and careful attention to the intimate and often surprising nature of children's sustainability learning in the context of their local places. The authors draw on new materialist and posthuman theory to consider the challenges posed to conventional environmental education by the advent of the new geological era of the Anthropocene and global climate change. Individual chapters explore the role of place and the material world in the development of literacy and language, the contribution of student-led design, arts-based approaches and indigenous knowledges as well as scientific pedagogies to provide unique insights into how children learn in their everyday places. The book is distinctive in its grounding in a range of empirical research studies with children and their teachers about their sustainability learning in a number of different locations in Australia.
Light- und air pollution make it hard today to see the stars of the night sky. Yet the “starry sky above us” already inspired Immanuel Kant to soaring flights of intellect and morality. Maybe today images from space telescope Hubble are... more
Light- und air pollution make it hard today to see the stars of the night sky. Yet the “starry sky above us” already inspired Immanuel Kant to soaring flights of intellect and morality. Maybe today images from space telescope Hubble are more likely the cause that makes us fell the shivers of greatness and ultimate scope. The development of mankind makes the relocation of sky observation into space not only possible, but also necessary. In this article, I sketch the biblical perspective on the heavens and some of their history, before I move to the topic of “preserving heavens and earth” and the idea of a planetary sustainability. Some didactical deliberations on the importance of discerning transcendence and immanence conclude the presentation. The heavens are a wonderful concept to explore the fruitfulness and importance of this distinction.
