Week 1
Can we save the planet? A question of education?
Reading
Hillman, M. (2004) How We Can Save the Planet, London: Penguin.
Orr, D. (2004) Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect, London: Island Press.
Wider reading
Lynas, M (2008) Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, London: Harper Perennial
Monbiot, G. (2006) Heat : how to stop the planet burning, London : Allen Lane
Week 2
The problem of education
Reading
Orr, D. (2004) Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect, London: Island Press.
Wider reading
Leopold, A. (1968) A Sand County Almanac with Sketches Here and There, London : Oxford University Press
Week 3
From deschooling to decivilizing: the turn to the primitive.
Reading
Illich, I. (1996) Deschooling Society, London: Marion Boyars.
Zerzan, J. (2002) Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization, Los Angeles: Feral House.
Wider reading
Rousseau, J. (1974) ‘Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men’ in Rousseau, J., The Discourses and the Social Contract, London: Everyman.
Deschooling
Illich, I. (1973) ‘The Deschooled Society’ in Buckman, P. (Ed.) Education Without Schools, London: Souvenir Press
Illich, I. & Verne, E.(1976) Imprisoned in the Global Classroom, London: Readers and Writers Publishing Co-operative
Kahn, R & Kellner, D. (2007) ‘Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich: technology, politics and the reconstruction of education’, Policy Futures in Education, 5(4), pp. 431-448
Decivilizing
Aatola, E. (2010) ‘Deep Ecology and Primitivism’ in Franks B. & Wilson, M. (Eds.) Anarchism and Moral Philosophy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Black, B. (1992) ‘Primitive Affluence: A Postscript to Sahlins’ in Black B., Friendly Fire, New York: Autonomedia
Zerzan, J (1999) Elements of Refusal, Columbia, Mo.: Paleo Editions
Zerzan, J. (Ed.) (2005) Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections, Los Angeles: Feral House
Zerzan, J. (2008) Twilight of the Machines, Los Angeles: Feral House
See also: http://www.primitivism.com/
week 4
details to follow
Week 5
Man and nature after Darwin
Reading
Darwin, C. (2004) The Descent of Man, London: Penguin.
Wider reading
Mayr, E. (1993) One long argument : Charles Darwin and the genesis of modern evolutionary thought, London: Penguin Books
Week 6
Man and nature after Marx & Engels
Reading
Marx, K. (1990) Capital, Volume One, London: Penguin.
Engels, F. (1987) ‘The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man’ in Marx, K. & Engels, F., Complete Works, Volume 25, London: Lawrence & Wishart
Wider reading
Bellamy Foster, J. (2000a) Marx’s Ecology: materialism and nature, New York: Monthly Review Press
Bellamy Foster, J. (2000b) ‘Marx’s Ecological Value Analysis’ in Monthly Review, 52 (4), http://www.monthlyreview.org/900jbf.htm, accessed, 8/12/05
Benton, T. (1996) ‘Engels and the Politics of Nature’ in Arthur, C. (Ed.) Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation, Basingstoke: MacMillan
Gould, S. (1991) Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, London: Penguin Books.
Stoczkowski, W. (2002) Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination, Conjecture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Week 7
The unitary world, deep ecology & the pedagogical project of Freya Mathews: the Ecological Self
Reading
Mathews, F. (1991) The Ecological Self, London: Routledge.
Wider reading
Graves, J. (1971) The Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Relativity Theory, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Mathews, F. (2003) For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, New York: State University of New York Press
Mathews, F. (2005) Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture , New York: State University of New York Press
Week 8
Krishnamurti on education and nature
Reading
Krishnamurti, J. (1955) Education & the Significance of Life, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.
Krishnamurti, J. (1974) Krishnamurti on Education, New Delhi: Orient Longman.
Wider reading
De Silva, P. (2007) Explorers of inner space: the Buddha, Krishnamurti and Kierkegaard, Ratmalana: Sarvodaya Vishva Lekha
Krishnamurti, J. (1963) The Life Ahead, London: Victor Gollancz
Krishnamurti, J. (1987) Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal, London: Victor Gollancz
Krishnamurti, J. (1992) On Nature and the Environment London: Victor Gollancz
Krishnamurti, J. (2000) To Be Human, Boston MA: Shambhala Publications Inc., 2000.
Krishnamurti, J. (2003) Beginnings of Learning, London: Phoenix
Krishnamurti, J. (2006) The whole movement of life is learning: J. Krishnamurti’s letters to his schools, Bramdean: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust
Martin, R. (2003) On Krishnamurti, London : Wadsworth
Week 9
Michael Bonnett: retrieving nature
Reading
Bonnett, M. (2004) Retreiving Nature: Education for a Post-Humanist Age, Oxford; Blackwell.
Wider reading
Bonnett, M. (2007) ‘Environmental Education and the Issue of Nature’, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 39 (6) 707-721
Bonnett, M (2009) ‘Education, sustainability and the metaphysics of nature’ in MacKenzie, M., P. Hart, H. Bai & B. Jickling (Eds.)(2009) Fields of green: Restorying culture, environment, education, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press
This session will be followed by an offsite trip to Inwoods and Brockwood Krishnamurti schools. The likely date for this trip is Wednesday November 21st.
Week 10
Ecomarxism & critical ecopedagogy
Reading
Mclaren, P. & Houston, D. (2005) ‘Revolutionary Ecologies: Ecosocialism and Critical Pedagogy’ in McLaren, P. Capitalists & Conquerors: A Critical pedagogy against Empire, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield
Wider reading
Bullard, R. (2005) ‘Environmental Justice in the Twenty-first Century’ in Bullard, R. (Ed.) The Quest For Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books
Engel-DiMauro, S. (2008) ‘Beyond the Bowers-McLaren Debate: The Importance of Studying the Rest of Nature in Forming Alternative Curricula’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 19 (2) 88-95
Figuera, R. (2002) ‘Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from Environmental Justice’ in Adamson, J., Evans, M., & Stein, R. (Eds.) The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics & Pedagogy, Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press
Freire, P. (2004) Pedagogy of the Heart, New York: Continuum.)
Gadotti, M. (2003) Pedagogy of the Earth and Culture of Sustainability, paper presented at the international conference ‘Lifelong Citizenship Learning, Participatory democracy and Social Change’, Toronto, 17-19 October, 2003
http://www.paulofreire.org/Moacir_Gadotti/Artigos/Ingles/On_Education/Pedagogy_of_the_Earth_and_Culture_of_Sustainability_2003.pdf
Kahn, R. (2003a) ‘Towards Ecopedagogy: Weaving a Broad-based Pedagogy of Liberation for Animals, Nature, and the Oppressed People of the Earth’, Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal, 1 (1), http://www.cala-online.org/Journal/Issue_1/Towards%20Ecopedagogy.htm
Kahn, R. (2005) ‘From Herbert Marcuse to the Earth Liberation Front:
Considerations for Revolutionary Ecopedagogy’, Green Theory and Praxis: A Journal of Ecological Politics, 1, http://greentheoryandpraxis.csufresno.edu/pdfs/kahn.pdf
Kahn, R. (2010) Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, & Planetary Crisis, New York: Peter Lang
Mclaren, P. & Houston, D. (2005) ‘Response to Bowers. The ‘Nature’ of Political Amnesia: A Response to C.A. ‘Chet’ Bowers’, Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Education Studies Association, 37 (2) pp 196-206
Week 11
Last Child in the Woods
Reading
Louv, R. (2008) Last Child in the Woods, Saving our children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, North Carolina: Algonquin Books.
Wider Reading
Sobel, D. (1996) Beyond Ecophobia, Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education, Great Barrington, MA, The Orion Society.
Week 12
The road to ecotopia
Reading
Callenbach, E. (2004) Ecotopia (30th Anniversary Edition), Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books
Wider reading
Buhle, P. (2001) ‘Ecotopia’, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 12 (3) 149-155
Callenbach, E (2004) Ecotopia Emerging, Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books
Callenbach, E. (2006) ‘Ecotopia in Japan?’, Communities, 132 , pp. 42-49
De Guis, M. (1999) Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society, Amsterdam: International Books
Frye, R. (1980) ‘The Economics of Ecotopia’, Alternative Futures.
Hartzell, H. (1987) Birth of a cooperative : Hoedads, Inc., a worker owned forest labor co-op, Eugene, OR : Hulogos’i
Jameson, F. (2005) Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, London: Verso.
Pepper, D. (2005) ‘Utopianism and Environmentalism’, Environmental Politics, 14 (1) 3-22
Tchachler, H. (1984) ‘Despotic Reason in Arcadia? Ernest Callenbach’s Ecological Utopias’, Science-Fiction Studies, 11, pp. 304-317
Educational Utopianism
Coté, M., Day, R., dePeuter, G. (Eds.)(2007) Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments against Global Neoliberal Education, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Peters, M & Freeman-Moir, J. (Eds.)(2006) Edutopias: New Utopian Thinking in Education, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
Additional Bibliography
Adamson, J., Evans, M., & Stein, R. (Eds.) (2002) The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics & Pedagogy, Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press
Agyeman, J., Bullard, R. & Evans, B. (2003) Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, London: Earthscan Publications
Angus, I. (Ed.) (2009) The global fight for climate justice: anticapitalist responses to global warming and environmental destruction, London : Resistance Books
Archer, D. (2008) The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate , Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Bensaïd, D. (2002) ‘The Torment of Matter (Contribution to the Critique of Political Ecology)’ in Bensaïd, D, Marx for Our Times: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique, London: Verso
Benton, T. (ed) (1996) The Greening of Marxism, London: The Guilford Press
Bonnett, M. (2002) ‘Education for Sustainability as a Frame of Mind’, Environmental Education Research, 8 (1) pp. 9-20
Bookchin, M. (1994) Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism, Toronto: Black Rose Books
Bookchin, M. (1997) The Murray Bookchin Reader, London: Cassell
Bowers, C. (2001) Educating for Eco-justice and Community, London : University of Georgia Press
Bowers, C. (2002) ‘Towards an Eco-Justice Pedagogy’, Environmental Education Research, 8 (1) pp. 21-34
Bowers, C. (2003), Mindful Conservatism: Rethinking the Ideological and Educational Basis of an Ecologically Sustainable Future, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Bowers, C. & Apffel-Marglin, F. (Eds.)(2005) Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Braun, B. & Castree, N. (Eds.) Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium, London: Routledge
Bullard, R. (Ed.) (2005) The Quest For Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books
Capra, F. (1997) The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter, London: Flamingo
Cartea, P. (2005) ‘In Praise of Environmental Education’, Policy Futures in Education, 3 (3), pp. 284-295
Caudwell, C. (1986) ‘Heredity & Development: A Study of Bourgeois Biology’ in Scenes and Actions: Unpublished Manuscripts, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Center for Critical Education (2007) Radical Teacher: Environmental Education, 78
Clover, D. (2002) ‘Traversing the gap; conscientización, educative-activism in environmental adult education’, , Environmental Education Research, 8 (3) pp. 315-323
Darwin, C. (1979) The Origin of Species, New York : Gramercy Books
Dunbar, R. (2004) The Human Story, London: Faber and Faber
Finlayson, C. (2004) Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Foster, J. (2001) ‘Education as Sustainability’, Environmental Education Research, 7 (2), pp.153-165
Freire, P. (2004) Pedagogy of Indignation, London: Paradigm
Gómez, J. (2005) ‘In the name of Environmental Education: words and things in the complex territory of education-environment-development relation’, Policy Futures in Education, 3 (3), pp. 260-270
González-Gaudiano, E. (2005) ‘Education for Sustainable development: configuration and meaning’, Policy Futures in Education, 3 (3), pp. 243-250
Gorz, A. (1994) Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, London: Verso
Hughes, L. (2003) The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples, Oxford: New Internationalist Publications
Haeckel, E. (1992) The Riddle of the Universe, Amhurst, NY: Prometheus Books
Jensen, D. (2004) Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution, White River Junctiom, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing
Jickling, B. (2005) ‘Sustainable Development in a Globalizing World: a few cautions’, Policy Futures in Education, 3 (3), pp. 251-259
Jucker, R. (2002) Our Common Illiteracy: Education as if the Earth and People Mattered, Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang
Jucker, R. (2005) ‘Between Stewardship and Simplicity: Parameters for Sustainable Communities’, The EcoJustice Review, 1, http://www.ecojusticeeducation.org/EJRset.html
Kelly, J. & Malone, S. (Eds.) (2006) Ecosocialism or barbarism, London : Socialist Resistance
Kovel, J. (2002) The Enemy of Nature: the End of Capitalism or the End of the World? London: Zed Books Ltd.
Latour, B. (2004) Politics of Nature, London: Harvard University Press
Light, A. (2004) ‘Marcuse’s Deep-Social Ecology and the future of Utopian Environmentalism’ in Abromeit, J. & Cobb, M. (Eds.) Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, London: Routledge
Lovelock, J. (1979) Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Lovelock, J. (2009) The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning London: Allen Lane
Luke, T. (2004) ‘Marcuse’s Ecological Critique and the American Environmental Movement’ in Abromeit, J. & Cobb, M. (Eds.) Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, London: Routledge
Maitent, P. (2002) ‘Mind the gap: summary of research exploring ‘inner’ influences on pro-sustainability learning and behaviour’, Environmental Education Research, 8 (3) pp.299-306
MacAuley, D. (1996) Minding nature : the philosophers of ecology, London : Guilford Press
Maniates, M. (2003) Encountering Global Environmental Politics: Teaching, Learning, and Empowering Knowledge, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Marx, K. (1992) Early Writings, London: Penguin Classics
Merchant, C. (1992) Radical Ecology: The Search for a Liveable World, London: Routledge
Morris, W. (1984) Political Writings, London: Lawrence & Wishart
Næss, A. (2008) The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Næss, Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint
Nocella, A. (2006) Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of Mother Earth, London: AK Press
O’Connor, J. (1998) Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism, London: The Guilford Press
O’Sullivan, E. & Taylor, M. (Eds.) (2004) Learning Towards an Ecological Consciousness: Selected Transformative Practices, New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Panter-Brick, C., Layton, R. & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2001) Hunter-gatherers : An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Permanent Revolution (2008) Climate change: a question of power London: PR Publications
Peters, M. (2005) ‘Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable development’, Policy Futures in Education, 3 (3), pp.239-242
Polanyi, K. (2002) Great Transformation, Beacon Press
Postma, D. (2002) ‘Taking the Future Seriously: On the Inadequacies of the Framework of Liberalism for Environmental Education’, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 36 (1), pp.41-56
Prakesh, M. & Stuchul, D. (2005) ‘McEducation marginalized: Multiverse of Learning-Living in Grassroots Commons’, Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Education Studies Association, 37 (2) pp. 58-73
Rasmussen, D. (2005) ‘The Priced versus the Priceless’, EcoJustice Review, 1, http://www.ecojusticeeducation.org/Rasmussen04.pdf
Rosebraugh, C. (2003) The Logic of Political Violence : Lessons in Reform and Revolution, Portland, OR : Arissa Media Group
Rosebraugh, C. (2004) Burning Rage of a Dying Planet : Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front, New York : Lantern Books
Sarkar, S. (1999) Eco-Socialism or Eco-Capitalism? London: Zed Books
Saint-Simon, C. (1979) Selected Writings, Westport, CT : Hyperion Press
Sessions, G. (1995) Deep ecology for the twenty-first century, London : Shambhala
Stables, A. (2001) Who Drew the Sky? Conflicting assumptions in Environmental Education’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 33 (2) pp. 245-256
Stone, M. & Barlow, Z. (2005) Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World, London: University of California Press
Stirling, S. (2001) Sustainable Education: Re-visioning Learning and Change, Dartington: Green Books
Tobias, M. (1988) Deep Ecology, San Marcos, CA. : Avant Books
Vogel, S. (2004) ‘Marcuse and the “New Science”’ in Abromeit, J. & Cobb, M. (Eds.) Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, London: Routledge
Ward. P. (2008) Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future, London: Collins
You may also find some of the following websites useful:
Centre for Human Ecology, Scotland http://www.che.ac.uk/index.php/
Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy, http://greentheoryandpraxis.ecopedagogy.org/index.php/journal/index
EcoJustice Education http://www.ecojusticeeducation.org/
Environment and Schools Initiative http://www.ensi.org/
Paulo Freire Institute http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/
Institute for Social Ecology http://www.social-ecology.org/
Adam Joseph Lewis Centre for Environmental Studies http://www.oberlin.edu/ajlc/ajlcHome.html
Peter McLaren http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/%7Emclaren/
Policy Futures in Education journal has a special issue on Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development, Volume 3, Number 3 at http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/3/issue3_3.asp
The Trumpeter, the Journal of Ecosophy (Ecological Philosophy) has extensive online archives at http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/issue/view/15, in particular Volume 18, Number 1 (2002) is an educational special issue.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713416156~db=all
Eco-Schools http://www.eco-schools.org.uk/