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The Eco-Certified Child

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The chapter unpacks how the figuration of the eco-certified child is (re)produced inside a cultural politics of emotions and how the “right” knowledge and actions are thought of as optimizing students’ emotions. Through education and activation, students are supposed to engage in the world with a good mood—which makes Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) into a “nice” practice avoiding complex problems as well as anger, despair or apathy. These emotions are instead attached to the Other; the one who needs to change to become a desirable citizen. The chapter discusses what this categorization of emotions means in terms of cultural constructions of We and the Other and how the cultural politics of ESE is (re)producing a colonial understanding of the world and its inhabitants.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For a deeper analysis of the practice and ideas behind teaching action-competence see Ideland (2016).

  2. 2.

    The analysis of willingness and willfulness, happiness duty etc. in ESE is elaborated in Ideland (2017).

  3. 3.

    The section on the organization of emotions is likewise based on results and analyses in the article “The Action-Competent Child ” (Ideland, 2016) and the book chapter “The End of the World and a Promise of Happiness” (Ideland, 2017).

  4. 4.

    On the other hand, many feminist theorists have tried to upgrade the significance of emotions in society and in research, as part of an emancipation project (besides Bennett , 2001, see Burman , 2009 for further references).

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Ideland, M. (2019). Eco-Certified Energy. In: The Eco-Certified Child. Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00199-5_3

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