Call for Papers for a special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability
The open-access journal Sustainability welcomes papers for its special issue, “Sustainability in Education: a Critical Reappraisal of Practice and Purpose”. In this special issue, the journal aims to examine the argument that education addresses the issue of human-led damage to the biosphere’s ability to support life and the resulting instability from the unequal distribution of critical resources around the world. The journal welcomes research based papers that analyse the purpose and practices of sustainability-focussed education and that consider its successes and failures up to this point. Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by January 31st 2013.
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/sustainability-education
Extract from the call:
Dear Colleagues,
The argument that education programmes should focus on the relationship between the quality of the natural environment and humanity’s socio-economic development is at least 50 years old. It is premised on three linked propositions. The first is that humans are increasingly over-taxing the biosphere’s ability to support life. The second is that gross inequalities between people across the world in terms of access to resources and achieving well-being are an affront to human dignity and a source of international and intercultural instability. These have led to the conclusion that different ways of socio-economic development are needed that will enable everyone to live well, and within the Earth’s ability to support us – now and into the future. The third proposition is that education, viewed broadly, is a critical social strategy if these issues are to be successfully addressed, and hence the need for education of all kinds that focuses on sustainability.
This special issue examines this last proposition, and research-based papers are invited which cast a critical eye on the practice and purpose of sustainability-focused education, and its successes and failures, thus far.
Prof. Dr. William Scott
Guest Editor
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