- Title
- Environmental ethics as processes of open-ended, pluralistic, deliberative enquiry
- Creator
- Olvitt, Lausanne L
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437309
- Identifier
- vital:73368
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780203813331
- Identifier
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203813331-15/environmental-ethics-processes-open-ended-pluralistic-deliberative-enquiry-lausanne-olvitt
- Description
- By the very nature of their work, environmental education re-searchers must engage with environmental philosophy and questions of values and ethics. But this terrain, despite being resourced with an apparently endless supply of typologies, an-thologies, and handbooks, can remain a vast and daunting philosophical sea—at least in my experience as a newcomer to the field, and possibly for many other scholars and re-searchers. This essay makes no claim to altering that and in-stead optimistically pursues Ball’s (2001, p. 89) suggestion that “there is much to be learned about, and from, the philosophical life-forms inhabiting these thickets and swamps.” My intention here is to review a relatively small but growing cluster of work in environmental ethics that proposes that:“Ethical positions are always open for discussion, re-examination, and revi-sion”(Jickling, 2004, p. 16) and are thus, by their very nature, open-ended, relational processes. My starting point in writing this essay is as an educator-researcher-environmentalist trying to explore what the field of environmental ethics has to offer in response to the question:“As educators, how can we learn and do more with others in the face of an unprecedented socioeco-logical crisis?”
- Format
- 7 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Olvitt, L., 2013. Environmental ethics as processes of open-ended, pluralistic, deliberative enquiry. In International handbook of research on environmental education (pp. 115-121). Routledge
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