Palgrave MacMillan has announced a new edited book by Jickling and Sterling. Its title is:
Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education Remaking Education for the Future (although I think there should be a colon somewhere here).
The publishers say:
This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development. Taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a prelude to reconstruction, this critique leads to discussions about how education can be remade, and respond to the educational imperatives of our time, particularly as they relate to ecological crises and human-nature relationships. The book might, thus, serve as an introductory reader for remaking 21st Century education. It will be of great interest to students and researchers of sociology, education, philosophy and environmental issues.
This is what pre-publication reviewers have had to say:
- 'Raises necessary radical answers to questions emerging from the Community of Life: How can we correct the suicidal path of the neoliberal cultural ethos?'
- 'Pushes us to consider the future of education.'
- 'An essential book for those seeking to transgress and disrupt the structures and forces pushing us all towards extinction.'
- 'Reaffirms what can be gained when we reconnect our educational practices to our deepest purposes and principles.'
- 'Encourages us to develop education models that awaken a more sensitive and caring human spirit, and guide us to look back at the essence of life.'
I think some scepticism is due.
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