【讲座】【已结束】【预告】环境教育系列课程之一
2016-05-09
教育学部外专团队环境教育系列课程
“A Western Perspective on Environmental Education”
主讲教授:美国阿拉斯加大学 Gerald McBeath 教授
McBeath教授1963年芝加哥大学毕业,1970年在加州大学伯克利分校获得政治学博士学位,是美国的长期从事环境政治学和环境政策研究,以及中国大陆、中国台湾环境外交政治等研究的著名学者。McBeath教授开展环境教育的特点,主要是从政治学维度入手,以西方文化的视角开展环境教育研究,进行环境教育课程的讲授。
时间和地点:
5月9日周一,14:00-16:35pm & 18:00-20:35pm 英东楼129
5月11日周三,09:00-11:35am & 14:00-16:35pm 英东楼822
5月13日周五,14:00-16:35pm & 18:00-20:35pm 英东楼822
5月14日周六,09:00-11:35am & 14:00-16:35pm 英东楼822
主办单位:教育学部北京师范大学环境教育中心
课程章节目录
I. Introduction to ES, ESD, EfS, CCE
II. Environmental issues (in China) requiring an EE response (air, land, water pollution, climate change, eco-disasters,etc)
III. The essential role that nation-states, governments play in resolution of environmental problems , the political science perspective
a. Nature of the 2016 world system, hegemony (unipolarity but with significant challenges)
b. A self-help system depending on individual, country-level responses
IV. Ideological and philosophical positions on Environmental Education, critical assessment of DWW (dominant Western world view)
a. Anthropocentric, both Western and Third World
b. Sentientism
c. Eco-centric (the critical deep ecology literature)
V. Student papers/presentation on philosophical/ethical positions,Controversy concerning radical (eco-centric, deep ecology) approaches to EE, ESD as opposed to the status quo
a. Dissensus in the field
b. Policy-making dilemmas
c. Questions of agency, ontology, epistemology, “modernity”
VI. Productive ways to implement EE, ESD, CCE : International (especially UN) recommendations
VII. Alternative ways (mostly hands-on) to implement EE, ESD, EfS, CCE, EER through classroom work
a. Exposure to environmental problems in school area
b. Presentation by experts on environmental problem
c. Visits to more distant EE sites
VIII. Plans to implement EE programs (student work)
a. A focus on obstacles to implementation, at local, regional, national, international levels
b. Student proposals: How to deal productively with obstacles in the implementation of EE, ESD
IX. Conclusion
Reflections on creatively overcoming obstacles and the best future for EE, ESD