- Title
- Education in the Anthropocene: Ethico-moral dimensions and critical realist openings
- Creator
- Olvitt, Lausanne L
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/372753
- Identifier
- vital:66620
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2017.1342613"
- Description
- Human-induced changes in planetary bio-geo-chemical processes have tipped earth into a newly-proposed geological epoch: the Anthropocene, which places moral and ethical demands on people regarding who should take responsibility for the well-being of people and planet, how, and why. Drawing generally on critical realist ontology, and more particularly on Roy Bhaskar’s concept of the person as a ‘four-planar social being’ living in the world as a laminated ontological whole, the article examines the dimensions of people’s ethico-moral engagement with the Anthropocene and considers what types of learning processes might enable people to understand, live in, and co-create this period known as ‘the Anthropocene’ in just, care-filled and—where necessary—transformative ways. The article points to the need for a radical re-orientation of education systems in the light of ethico-moral challenges that come to prominence in the Anthropocene, and argues for learning processes that nurture individual and collective moral agency through transformative, even transgressive, learning processes that are relational, humble, interdisciplinary, multi-perspectival, systemic, reality-congruent and contextually responsive.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (14 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Moral Education, Olvitt, L.L., 2017. Education in the Anthropocene: Ethico-moral dimensions and critical realist openings. Journal of Moral Education, 46(4), pp.396-409, Journal of Moral Education volume 46 number 4 p. 396 2017 1465-3877
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Olvitt, Lausanne Laura (Dr)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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