scholarly journals Bærekraftig livstolkning – KRLE-faget som brobygger mellom religionenes og ungdommenes klimaengasjement

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-165
Author(s):  
Tom Sverre Tomren
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
School System ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Environmental Commitment ◽  
Environmental Work ◽  
New Curricula

In this chapter, the authors focus on textbooks’ portrayal of religions and worldviews and their thinking and practice regarding environmental, climate and sustainability issues. Tomren shows how religious institutions work with environmental problems and climate change and analyzes how textbooks designed for religious education in the Norwegian school system address this commitment. His method thus falls under what is referred to as ideological textbook analysis. None of the analyzed books contain texts that explain how various religious institutions are involved in environmental work. The analysis also shows that textbooks for religious education do not place much priority on environment and climate ethics. Another finding is that environmental ethics is detached from the general descriptions of world religions in these books. Tomren argues that the new curricula for Norwegian schools (which will be introduced in 2020–2021), with an emphasis on sustainability education and existence-oriented instruction, requires an upgrade of material that shows how climate and environmental commitment is rooted in reflection and practice in world religions today. Tomren suggests that by taking these steps, the school system can provide a more truthful presentation of religion than they do in existing textbooks and that this can contribute to improved and more relevant environmental education.

scholarly journals What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Lauren Honig ◽  
Amy Erica Smith ◽  
Jaimie Bleck
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Critical Link

Addressing climate change requires coordinated policy responses that incorporate the needs of the most impacted populations. Yet even communities that are greatly concerned about climate change may remain on the sidelines. We examine what stymies some citizens’ mobilization in Kenya, a country with a long history of environmental activism and high vulnerability to climate change. We foreground efficacy—a belief that one’s actions can create change—as a critical link transforming concern into action. However, that link is often missing for marginalized ethnic, socioeconomic, and religious groups. Analyzing interviews, focus groups, and survey data, we find that Muslims express much lower efficacy to address climate change than other religious groups; the gap cannot be explained by differences in science beliefs, issue concern, ethnicity, or demographics. Instead, we attribute it to understandings of marginalization vis-à-vis the Kenyan state—understandings socialized within the local institutions of Muslim communities affected by state repression.

scholarly journals Education activities for environment and sustainability: A Snapshot of eight New South Wales councils

1970 ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Jade Herriman ◽  
Emma Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
South Wales ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Sustainable Futures ◽  
Preliminary Phase ◽  
Sydney Australia

This paper describes in brief the findings of a research project undertaken by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The research was commissioned by and undertaken on behalf of the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW). The aim of the project was to investigate current practices of environmental and sustainability education and engagement within local government in NSW. The research was commissioned by DECCW as the preliminary phase of a larger project that the department is planning to undertake, commencing in 2010.

scholarly journals Praxis Education Perspective of Integration of Science and Islam

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Khozin Khozin
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
School System ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Subject

Commonly, practice of islamic education implementation is dichotomic. Muhammadiyah as a pioneer of modern islamic education in Indonesia in its implementation has tried to pair up science and Islam, both institutionally and scienctifically. Scientifically proven that school system in past was only taught science, whereas islamic boarding taught only Islam.Muhammadiyah through its education system offers the integration of science and Islam through religious education which is now popularly called al-Islam and Kemuhammadiyahan education. At PTMA there are also Islamic Studies which are carried out by FAI in almost every Muhammadiyah university. While institutionally generally Muhammadiyah universities provide mushalla or mosques to complement their school infrastructure, even in the organizational structure there are officials who are directly in charge of al-Islam and Kemuhammadiyahan. It all is still not integrated as a whole that benefits both science and institutions. Science has not been integrated in the subject of the study of al-Islam and Kemuhammadiyahan, and viceversa.

scholarly journals The Ugency of the Greening of Ethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 592
Author(s):  
Anna Malavisi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Effective Practice ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Environmental Situation ◽  
Salient Features

Richard Sylvan, a vanguard in the field of environmental philosophy published a book in 1994 with David Bennett titled The Greening of Ethics. Nearly twenty-five years later, where the environmental situation of our world is even more serious, and where some governments deny the existence and negative effects of human caused climate change, the greening of ethics is even more urgent. In this paper, I revisit Sylvan’s and Bennett’s work arguing that their approach to environmental ethics should be one that is advocated. I consider the most salient features of their approach, how this translates into practice but also offer an analysis as to why some governments have reached an impasse in regard to implementing environmental policies, and why environmental ethics still remains on the margins. In the final section of this paper, I discuss what an effective practice would mean.

Buddhist Environmental Ethics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Kaza
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Human History ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Ethical Response ◽  
Promising Avenue

Global pressures on human–environment systems are higher than ever before in human history, generating broad ethical engagement in many quarters. Citizen calls for moral response from world religious and political leaders have grown more urgent as pressures mount. Buddhist philosophy contains a wealth of insight and moral guidance regarding human–environment relations, offering a promising avenue for ethical response. This chapter reviews work to date in Buddhist environmental ethics, noting influences from and on Western ethics and areas of tension in current thinking. Arguments are made for complementary development of both individual virtue ethics and constructivist social ethics. Moral dimensions of consumerism and climate change are examined as case studies, drawing on Buddhist values such as non-harming, compassion, meditative awareness, and skilful means.

Climate change and sustainability education

2017 ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Chew-Hung Chang ◽  
Liberty Pascua
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainability Education

Critical Religious Education and world religions

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-67
Author(s):  
Christina Easton ◽  
Angela Goodman ◽  
Andrew Wright ◽  
Angela Wright
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
World Religions

scholarly journals Religious Education beyond Congregational Settings

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Turpin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faith Formation ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Institutional Affiliation ◽  
Educational Literature ◽  
Christian Congregations

Religious educational literature in the United States often presumes the congregation as the primary context for the work of faith formation. Given the reduction of institutional affiliation and participation in Christian congregations, this assumption makes approaches to religious education requiring an identity-bearing community of affiliation less relevant. Several emerging models of religious education eschew the community provided by formal religious institutions for more provisional, radically contextualized communal approaches to religious education. These approaches spark a different and important imagination for religious education beyond congregations, embedded in provisional communities of solidarity and engagement.

False Starts

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-62
Author(s):  
Joseph Heath
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Second Wave

Despite the fact that there is an obvious normative dimension to the problem of anthropogenic climate change, environmental ethicists have so far not had much influence on policy deliberations. This is primarily because mainstream views in the philosophical literature have policy implications that are implausibly extreme. This chapter begins by considering the case of traditional environmental ethics, and the debate over anthropocentrism that has dominated this literature. Far from generating specific policy recommendations, this perspective has tended rather to generate only pluralism, if not outright skepticism about value. These difficulties led to the emergence of a second wave of environmental philosophers, who have attempted to grapple with the issues raised by climate change using the tools of normative political philosophy. Many of these frameworks have also failed to make a productive contribution because their deontological structure makes them poorly tailored to consideration of the trade-offs involved in different policy options.

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