Decolonization of Environmental Education from the Perspective of Southern Environmental Thinking

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Patricia Noguera de Echeverri ◽  
Diana Alexandra Bernal Arias ◽  
Sergio Manuel Echeverri Noguera
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The South ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Way

A bet, a clamor, an algid need, to “thinking us” (as a collaborative, and reflexive thinking in a prospective way) about environmental education, or better, the environmentalization of education, in a decolonization that helps us think: How do we inhabit “this South that we are” in times of environmental crisis? Thinking us, in this environmental crisis, that is civilizatory. Thinking about it, and thinking us from an “environmental turn” (a change in the way we look at everything, far from seeing life as a resource, and far from devastating capitalism): from the environmental as an object to the environmental as deep and complex symbolic–biotic relationships between ecosystems and cultures. It is an environmental turn that recognizes the felthinking() Body-Earth (Noguera, 2012) that we are in an aesthetic, sensitive transit, in which the polyphonic voices of these lands emerge in the South Environmental Thought. Our paths are many, however. One of them that we wish to name Methodesthesis as the path of feeling, where the sensitive, the sensibility, the sense, the senses, and the sentient allow an understanding of the language of the Earth and the permanent aesthetic creations of the Earth-Nature-Life that we are, in a radical dissolution of the cognitive subject and the measurable object. It is an ontic, epistemic-ethical-aesthetic-political proposal, but above all it is an urgency, an enjoyment, a poetic flourishing of life itself, of the Earth and of us as life and land, in a decolonized southern environmental education and decolonizing that allows transitions for a more poetic dwelling in this South than we are.

Applying a Feminist Critique to Environmental Education

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 10-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Di Chiro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Environmental Demands

One thing about which there is widespread consensus is that the earth and its inhabitants are in social and environmental peril. This is where the consensus ends, however, for there is equally widespread disagreement as to the nature and causes of the problems (more social or more environmental), the severity of the problems (for whom are they recognised and felt as problems), and the most appropriate and effective solutions necessary to deal with them. This paper argues for the adoption of a critical, feminist perspective in examining the area of Environmental Education (EE) as an ‘appropriate response’ to this globally perceived socio-environmental crisis.Historically, environmental education emerged out of the early 1970's during the time when the environmental movement was gaining momentum and vitality on a worldwide scale (Disinger, 1983; Robottom, 1985a; Stapp, 1970). It was envisioned by the international participants at the three major UNESCO-UNEP Environment Conferences held that decade, that EE was the most appropriate and hopeful educational response to the crisis situation of the deterioration of quality of life and the environment (Fensham, 1978).The aims of EE that emerged from the UN conference in Tbilisi, USSR in 1977 were particularly ambitious in that they transcended a concern with the roles, objectives and guiding principles of EE and spelled out the need for an understanding of: … the epistemological and institutional structures that affect consideration of environmental demands” … and …. “the obstacles (epistemological, cultural or social) restricting access to educational messages and their utilization” (Robottom, 1985b).

scholarly journals Earth system sciences and permaculture: contributions to environmental

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-368
Author(s):  
Eliza C. Wenceslau ◽  
Joseli M. Piranha
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Earth System ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Systemic Understanding ◽  
The Way

In view of the environmental crisis that plagues the world today, resulting from the dissociation of man and environment and the low effectiveness of educational policies, especially regarding Environmental Education, the need for a paradigm shift is evident, transforming the way of teaching and thinking about Environmental Education. In that respect, it is believed that the concepts advocated by Earth System Sciences, applied to Permaculture, can contribute to the development of a more humanistic and respectful culture, besides providing man with a new outlook on the environment. Thus, the present work exposes the foundations of these two theoretical references (Earth System Sciences and Permaculture), aiming to contribute to the reform in thought, and allowing the teaching and learning process in Environmental Education to be more effective and consistent. While Earth System Sciences allow the systemic understanding of the planet as well as the complex relationships between its various constituents, Permaculture seeks a harmonious coexistence of man and the environment. They value, in an analogous way, the interrelations between the constituents of the system, revealing alternatives that enable changes in the way the natural environment is occupied, making it more sustainable and raising consciousness.

No, the Universe Is Not on Our Side

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Bruce Ledewitz
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Negative Answer ◽  
The Earth ◽  
John Gray ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Entropy Of The Universe ◽  
The Way

In the 1990 “pale blue dot” photograph that Carl Sagan asked NASA to take, we see the potential of a negative answer to Bernard Lonergan’s question to renew American public life. For Sagan, the isolation of the Earth in the cosmic vastness “underscores our responsibility to deal kindly with each other” and preserve our planet. The conclusion that the universe is not on our side is supported by numerous features of reality: lifeless matter, knowledge limited to the senses, death, decline, the vagaries of history, entropy of the universe, and more. We can accept living in this no. The universe is not hostile, merely neutral. Several thinkers show the way forward, especially John Gray. We can practice Simon Critchley’s faith of the faithless. The instrumental thought of Randy Barnett demonstrates how to construct healthy institutions. Anthony Kronman reminds us that our lives are meaningful only because of our mortality.

scholarly journals Crise Ambiental e a “mentira inventada pelos chineses”: problematizações foucaultianas sobre o poder ubuescoEnviromental Crisis and the “lie invented by the Chinese”: Foucaultian problematizations about the ubuesque powerCrisis Ambiental y la "mentira inventada por los chinos": problematizaciones foucaultianas sobre el poder ubuesco

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-291
Author(s):  
Isabel Cristina Dalmoro ◽  
Suelen Assunção Santos
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
The Senses

Esse artigo é um recorte da pesquisa de Mestrado que tem como objetivo examinar conceitos pertinentes à filosofia de Michel Foucault que possam ser operados analiticamente com a Educação Ambiental. O conceito escolhido para esse texto, enquanto ferramenta de análise, é o do poder ubuesco. O conceito de poder ubuesco foi mencionado por Michel Foucault somente nas duas primeiras aulas que integram a obra Os Anormais (Curso no Collège de France 1974-1975). Para examinar o referido conceito, a pesquisa baseia-se no método da Cartografia, na qual se buscará apresentar os mapas dos sentidos que a categoria do ubuesco alcançou, operando com o contexto da crise ambiental vigente. This paper is a part of a Master’s degree research that aims to examine concepts pertinent to Michel Foucault’s philosophy that to be operated analytically with Environmental Education. The concept chosen for this paper, as a tool of analysis, is the ubuesque power. The concept of ubuesque power was mentioned by Michel Foucault only in the first two classes that integrate the work Abnormal (Lectures at the Collège de France 1974-1975). To examine the refered concept, the research is based in the Cartography method, wich will seek to present the maps of the senses that the ubuesque category reached, operating with the context of the present environmental crisis. Este artículo es un recorte de la investigación de Maestría con propósito de examinar conceptos pertinentes a la filosofía de Michel Foucault que pueden ser operados analíticamente com la Educación Ambiental. El concepto elegido para ese texto, como herramienta de análisis, es el del poder ubuesco. El concepto de poder ubuesco fue mencionado sólo en las dos primeras clases que integram la obra Los Anormales (Curso en Collège de France 1974-1975). Para examinar este concepto, la investigación se basa en el método da Cartografia, en la que se buscará presentar los mapas de los sentidos que la categoría del ubuesco alcanzó, operando con el contexto la crisis ambiental vigente.

scholarly journals O Trabalho Associativo em Empreendimento de Economia Solidária e o papel da Educação Ambiental Crítica, Emancipatória e TransformadoraThe Associative Work in Development of Solidarity Economy and the role of Critical, Emancipatory and Transformative Environmental EducationEl trabajo asociativo en emprendimiento de economía solidaria y el papel de la Educación Ambiental Crítica, Emancipatoria y Transformadora

2018 ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
Marcia Borges Umpierre ◽  
Thierri Silva Pecke ◽  
Lúcia De Fátima Socoowski de Anello
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
The South ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
The Way

O presente trabalho visa compreender como a economia solidária e a educação ambiental auxiliam no processo de emancipação e transformação de catadores e catadoras no sul do Rio Grande do Sul. Para tanto foram acompanhadas em torno de 68 reuniões, 4 assembleias ordinárias em cooperativas e associações, organização de documentos, realização de 9 oficinas de formação. Foram feitas observações e intervenções, algumas atividades foram propostas pelos pesquisadores e outras foram demandadas pelos grupos. Observou-se que todos os grupos apresentam características semelhantes, mas constatou-se ainda que cada grupo tem as suas especificidades, e necessidades, por vezes, distintas. Essas características estão diretamente relacionadas, com a forma que os grupos estão organizados, e como foram constituídos, bem como a maturidade dos grupos na realização das atividades. The present work aims to understand how solidarity economy and environmental education help in the process of emancipation and transformation of pickers and pickers in the south of Rio Grande do Sul. For this purpose, 68 meetings, 4 ordinary assemblies in cooperatives and associations, organization of documents, 9 training workshops. Observations and interventions were made, some activities were proposed by the researchers and others were demanded by the groups. It was observed that all the groups have similar characteristics, but it was also verified that each group has its specifics, and sometimes different needs. These characteristics are directly related, with the way the groups are organized, and how they were constituted, as well as the maturity of the groups in the accomplishment of the activities. El presente trabajo pretende comprender cómo la economía solidaria y la educación ambiental auxilian en el proceso de emancipación y transformación de recolectores y recolectores en el sur de Rio Grande do Sul. Para ello se acompañaron en torno a 68 reuniones, 4 asambleas ordinarias en cooperativas y asociaciones, organización de documentos, realización de 9 talleres de formación. Se hicieron observaciones e intervenciones, algunas actividades fueron propuestas por los investigadores y otras fueron demandadas por los grupos. Se observó que todos los grupos presentan características similares, pero se constató que cada grupo tiene sus especificidades, y necesidades a veces distintas. Estas características están directamente relacionadas, con la forma que los grupos están organizados, y cómo se constituyeron, así como la madurez de los grupos en la realización de las actividades.

‘Man Is Ill Because He Is Badly Constructed’: Artaud, Klossowski and Deleuze in Search for the Earth Inside

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Dolphijn
Keyword(s):  
Performance Art ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
And Performance

Starting with Antonin Artaud's radio play To Have Done With The Judgement Of God, this article analyses the ways in which Artaud's idea of the body without organs links up with various of his writings on the body and bodily theatre and with Deleuze and Guattari's later development of his ideas. Using Klossowski (or Klossowski's Nietzsche) to explain how the dominance of dialogue equals the dominance of God, I go on to examine how the Son (the facialised body), the Father (Language) and the Holy Spirit (Subjectification), need to be warded off in order to revitalize the body, reuniting it with ‘the earth’ it has been separated from. Artaud's writings on Balinese dancing and the Tarahumaran people pave the way for the new body to appear. Reconstructing the body through bodily practices, through religion and above all through art, as Deleuze and Guattari suggest, we are introduced not only to new ways of thinking theatre and performance art, but to life itself.

Heritage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Shaikh ◽  
Stefano Bonino
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Online Video ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Community Heritage ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The Way

The Colourful Heritage Project (CHP) is the first community heritage focused charitable initiative in Scotland aiming to preserve and to celebrate the contributions of early South Asian and Muslim migrants to Scotland. It has successfully collated a considerable number of oral stories to create an online video archive, providing first-hand accounts of the personal journeys and emotions of the arrival of the earliest generation of these migrants in Scotland and highlighting the inspiring lessons that can be learnt from them. The CHP’s aims are first to capture these stories, second to celebrate the community’s achievements, and third to inspire present and future South Asian, Muslim and Scottish generations. It is a community-led charitable project that has been actively documenting a collection of inspirational stories and personal accounts, uniquely told by the protagonists themselves, describing at first hand their stories and adventures. These range all the way from the time of partition itself to resettling in Pakistan, and then to their final accounts of arriving in Scotland. The video footage enables the public to see their facial expressions, feel their emotions and hear their voices, creating poignant memories of these great men and women, and helping to gain a better understanding of the South Asian and Muslim community’s earliest days in Scotland.

When Silence Strikes: Derrida, Heidegger, Mallarmé

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-262
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Therezo
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This paper attempts to rethink difference and divisibility as conditions of (im)possibility for love and survival in the wake of Derrida's newly discovered—and just recently published—Geschlecht III. I argue that Derrida's deconstruction of what he calls ‘the grand logic of philosophy’ allows us to think love and survival without positing unicity as a sine qua non. This hypothesis is tested in and through a deconstructive reading of Heidegger's second essay on Trakl in On the Way to Language, where Heidegger's phonocentrism and surreptitious nationalism converge in an effort to ‘save the earth’ from a ‘degenerate’ Geschlecht that cannot survive the internal diremption between Geschlechter. I show that one way of problematizing Heidegger's claim is to point to the blank spaces in the ‘E i n’ of Trakl's ‘E i n Geschlecht’, an internal fissuring in the very word Heidegger mobilizes in order to secure the future of mankind.

STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR GENDER AND ACADEMIC STREAM

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-265
Author(s):  
Dr.Navdeep Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Stages Of Learning ◽  
The Masses

Since its evolution environment has remained both a matter of awe and concern to man. The frontier attitude of the industrialized society towards nature has not only endangered the survival of all other life forms but also threatened the very existence of human life. The realization of such potential danger has necessitated the dissemination of knowledge and skill vis-a-vis environment protection at all stages of learning. Therefore, learners of all stages of learning need to be sensitized with a missionary zeal. This may ensure transformation of students into committed citizens for averting global environment crisis. The advancement of science and technology made the life more and more relaxed and man also became more and more ambitious. With such development, human dependence on environment increased. He consumed more resources and the effect of his activities on the environment became more and more detectable. Environment covers all the things present around the living beings and above the land, on the surface of the earth and under the earth. Environment indicates, in total, all of peripheral forces, pressures and circumstances, which affect the life, nature, behaviour, growth, development and maturation of living beings. Irrational exploitation (not utilization) of natural resources for our greed (not need) has endangered our survival, and incurred incalculable harm. Environmental Education is a science, a well-thought, permanent, lasting and integrated process of equipping learning experiences for getting awareness, knowledge, understanding, skills, values, technical expertise and involvement of learners with desirable attitudinal changes about their relationship with their natural and biophysical environment. Environmental Education is an organized effort to educate the masses about environment, its functions, need, importance, and especially how human beings can manage their behaviour in order to live in a sustainable manner.  The term 'environmental awareness' refers to creating general awareness of environmental issues, their causes by bringing about changes in perception, attitude, values and necessary skills to solve environment related problems. Moreover, it is the first step leading to the formation of responsible environmental behaviour (Stern, 2000). With the ever increasing development by modern man, large scale degradation of natural resources have been occurred, the public has to be educated about the fact that if we are degrading our environment we are actually harming ourselves. To encourage meaningful public participation and environment, it is necessary to create awareness about environment pollution and related adverse effects. This is the crucial time that environmental awareness and environmental sensitivity should be cultivated among the masses particularly among youths. For the awareness of society it is essential to work at a gross root level. So the whole society can work to save the environment.

The Exorcism of the Salt Ponds at Xie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barend J. ter Haar
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Salt Ponds ◽  
The South ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Way

The historical Guan Yu came from a village in Xie Prefecture (modern Yuncheng) in the south of the modern province of Shanxi, close to one of the main salt producing sites of traditional China. From the early twelfth century onwards a new type of worship for Lord Guan was transmitted throughout southern China by Daoist exorcist specialists, which was motivated by a story about his successful defeat of a demon causing mishap in the salt ponds of Xie. The Daoist connection of the deity was much stronger than the Buddhist one, but this was the Daoism of ritual practice, rather than the philosophical approaches as some may construct them from the Book of the Way and the Virtue that is ascribed to Laozi. A substantial numbers of temple foundations in southern China in particular can be explained through this Daoist connection.

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