Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis (Counterpoints Free

Author: Richard Kahn
Edition: First printing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1433105454

Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)

We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. Download Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. What role can critical pedagogy play in the face of such burgeoning catastrophe? Drawing upon a range of theoretical influences--including Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Herbert Marcuse, traditional ecological knowledge, and the cognitive praxis produced by today's grassroots activists in the alter-globalization, animal and earth liberation, and other radical social movements--this book offers the foundations of a philosophy of ecopedagogy for the global north. In so doing, it poses challenges to today's dominant ecoliteracy paradigms and programs, such as education for sustainable development, while theorizing the needed reconstruction Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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