Do We Know What We Are Doing? Reflections on Learning, Knowledge, Economics, Community and Sustainability

Download or read book Do We Know What We Are Doing? Reflections on Learning, Knowledge, Economics, Community and Sustainability written by Rolf Jucker and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discourse of education for sustainability has been severely limited by the fact that it largely refuses to acknowledge important insights from other fields of learning and knowledge. This reluctance to engage with central insights regarding how the world and, more specifically, how human interactions with both the human and non-human world work, ensures that it has remained a largely self-centred discourse. It is tangled up with reflections on education without contextualising them in the...