Cultivating an Academy We Can Live With: The Humanities and Education for Sustainability

Journal Title: Religions - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 10

Abstract

Many facets of the university system in North America are fundamentally unsustainable, developing and perpetuating knowledge practices that not only do not sustain the biospheric conditions in which our species evolved, but actually defray them. This analysis proceeds in three ways: (a) highlights the historical entanglement of religion and sustainability discourse and the now global concern over climate disruption; (b) it interrogates assumptions regarding whether, when, and to what extent scholars of religions should advance politically significant arguments; (c) explores problem-based learning and integrative curricular development, which may be fostered by focusing on complex wicked problems such as climate disruption.

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Lucas Johnston

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  • EP ID EP25614
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/rel7100120
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Lucas Johnston (2016). Cultivating an Academy We Can Live With: The Humanities and Education for Sustainability. Religions, 7(10), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-25614