Political Education in the Anthropocene by Wallenhorst, Nathanaël; Hétier, Renaud; Pierron, Jean-Philippe; Wulf, Christoph;

Long description:

This book articulates an educational theory as well as a political theory of the Anthropocene. Divided into three sections it addresses educational anthropology, cultures and institutions, and educational recommendations in the Anthropocene. Topics covered in the volume measure the impact of the idea of the Anthropocene on the type of anthropology that underlies education and on a phenomenology of relationship. It links the notion of the Anthropocene with cultures and institutions so as not to 'smooth out' or erase the latter. Finally, it presents proposals and recommendations for educational practices.

The work advocates rethinking education as an essential component in ensuring the sustainability of human life in society - by proposing to go beyond the approach of education for sustainable development or environmental education. The work also brings together empirical contributions in which proposals are elaborated for programs, pedagogical devices and experiments relatingto the preparation of the future in the field of education. This volume is of interest to researchers of the Anthropocene.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.- Part One: Rethinking an anthropology of education in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 1. The emergence of the Anthropocene: revealing the human condition.- Chapter 2. What anthropology is appropriate for the Anthropocene?.- Chapter 3. Who is the subject of the Anthropocene? The use of personal pronouns to express the self as being human.- Chapter 4. Towards the Anthropocene via philosophical education: being in the world, inhabiting, disappearing.- Chapter 5. Education for taking responsibility in the Anthropocene in the light of Paul Ricoeur.- Chapter 6. Environmental issues reflected in the Anthropocene: political trends and educational heterotopia.- Part Two: Reforming educational cultures and institutions in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 7. The Anthropocene - From Critique to Action: Observations on a Strategy for Sustainability.- Chapter 8. Understanding the Anthropocene as an interpretative framework for educating.- Chapter 9. Educational policies, lasting developmentand the Anthropocene: visions, limitations and opportunities.- Chapter 10. Education and indigeneity.- Chapter 11. Transformation in the age of the Anthropocene: mimesis, rituals, gestures.- Chapter 12. What kind of citizenship in the Anthropocene?.- Chapter 13. Is educating already fighting?.- Part Three: Some educational recommendations in the Anthropocene – pedagogical approaches, experiments.- Chapter 14. Ecological transition and education in odyssey.- Chapter 15. Educating for a sense of limits and limitlessness in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 16. Learning to survive in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 17. Critique, utopia and resistance: three functions of a pedagogy of resonance in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 18. The role of science education in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 19. Ecology and education: the example of ecotopias.- Chapter 20. Radical and accepted advanced education: the growing experience of the Campus of Transition.