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This book provides a critique of more than two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development, sustainability education, and, for longer still, environmental education. Additionally, taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a prelude to reconstruction, this critique leads to discussion about how education can be remade in ways that are conceptually strong and respond to the educational imperatives of our time, particularly as they relate to ecological crises and human/nature relationships. Central to the task at hand is not to add new bits to the curriculum, or new signifiers, but rather, to frame a “new vision for education.”
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The Glove and Mail, April 1, 2013, p. A14.
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Here we are referring to Initiatives arising out of the Rio Earth Summit and Agenda 21 in 1992 and peaking with the decade of education for sustainable development that has just ended.
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See, for example, Patti Lather, 2013.
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Jickling, B., Sterling, S. (2017). Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education: Framing Issues. In: Jickling, B., Sterling, S. (eds) Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education. Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51322-5_1
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