- Title
- Ethical deliberations in environmental education workplaces: a case story of contextualised and personalised reflexivity
- Creator
- Olvitt, Lausanne L
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437421
- Identifier
- vital:73377
- Identifier
- ISBN 9789086867578
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867578_0010
- Description
- This chapter explores the fluidity and complexity of individual ethical deliberations in an environmental education workplace and ‘teases out’the associated learning processes. Based on the author’s recent doctoral research, the chapter tells the story of one South African environmental educator grappling with environmentoriented ethical tensions in his work. These ten-sions range from immediate officebased concerns such as paper wastage, to wider concerns such as lowering his carbon footprint through his choice of transport. The environmental educator has recently completed a one-year part-time course in environmental education. Does the course’s new capital of concepts and terminology influence his ethical deliberations? Does learning about environmental philosophies and other people’s ethical dilemmas support him to deepen his engage-ment with ethical tensions in his ownwork? The case study suggests that course-based learning processes are not espe-cially influential until they interface with the multi-layered soci-ocultural and historical dynamics in work-based and home-based ethical deliberations. Deciding what is ‘right’, and then teaching others about that ‘rightness’ is not as simple as know-ing the facts or norms, and acting on them. Past experiences, cultural norms, religious convictions, power gradients and even logistical constraints, all influence the nature and outcome of individual ethical deliberations, as do people’s future aspira-tions and their professional identities as environmental educa-tors.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Olvitt, L.L., 2012. Ethical deliberations in environmental education workplaces: a case story of contextualised and personalised reflexivity. In Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change (pp. 105-120). Wageningen Academic
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