Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development : A History of Ideas (Paperback)

Section 1 Past Historic1. Humans Being 2. Playing and Learning in the Mesolithic 3. Earth Mother ? Mother Earth 4. In the Beginning 5. Virgil’s Georgics 6. How the Greenland Norse Chose 7. Science and the Ecological Imagination 8. Francis Bacon and the Interrogation of Nature 9. Descartes, the World and the Method 10. Rousseau wrote Emile; Pestalozzi made it real 11. The 18th Century (sustainable) Development Goals 12. The English Romantic Poets 13. Public Education and the Industrial Revolution 14. Alexander von Humboldt 15. John Clare’s Enclosure 16. Marx in Nature 17. Thoreau and Walden 18. The Significance of John Muir 19. Friluftsliv 20. Patrick Geddes 21. John Dewey and the Ecology of Learning 22. Blud und Boden 23. This Land is your Land Section 2 Present Imperfect24. Rachel Carson’s Silence 25. The Road to Tbilisi 26. Gaia 27. Forest School Origins 28. The Early UN Conferences 29. Prepositions and the Environment 30. How Deep is your Ecology? 31. Environmentally Educated Teachers 32. Are Significance Life Experiences always Significant? 33. Faith, Hope, Charity and the Ecological Crisis 34. The Earth Charter 35. The Behaviour of Models 36. The Coming of ESD 37. Green Still does not Always Mean Go 38. The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? 39. In Competence we Trust 40. Environmental Learning 41. Extinction? Rebellion? Section 3 Future Possible42. Behind the Cenes: What Stories Shall We Tell? 43. Being Human Appendices1 A Brief History of Environment and Learning in England 2 A Brief History of Environment and Learning in the USA 3 A Brief History of Environment and Learning in Germany 4 The Sustainable Development Goals