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ERIC Number: EJ1318695
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Nov
Pages: 30
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-4086
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Facing the Anthropocene: Comparative Education as Sympoiesis
Silova, Iveta
Comparative Education Review, v65 n4 p587-616 Nov 2021
Humans live in a moment of epochal precarity, marked by the devastating impacts of the climate catastrophe and persistent political impasse. While scientists are warning about the climate emergency and social movements are mobilizing for radical change, there is not the same level of collective outrage, care, or action in the field of education. The author's goal is to disrupt the practice of insulating ourselves from the crises of the Anthropocene. To this end, the author offers three interrelated provocations. First, the crisis of the Anthropocene is a reflection of a much broader and deeper cultural crisis. Second, education is deeply implicated in the cultural crisis by perpetuating the logic of human exceptionalism and the hierarchical "man over nature" relationship, while simultaneously reducing nature to its exploitable value to benefit humans in pursuit of infinite economic growth. And third, survival depends on the capacity to imagine and learn new ways of living with each other, with other species, and with the Earth.
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Language: English
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