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Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development

Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation

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Editors:
  1. Olof Franck

    1. Department of Pedagogical Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  2. Christina Osbeck

    1. Department of Pedagogical Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  • Includes an afterword by Arjen Wals which is free to download
  • Examines education for sustainable development in schools through the lens of ethical literacy
  • Argues that education for sustainable development is more successful if students learn to become engaged moral agents rather than through testing and assessment
  • Explores how children acts as moral subjects through the medium of fiction, reading and art

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Highlighting Ethics, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation in Sustainability Education: Challenges and Contributions

    • Olof Franck
    Pages 1-17

  3. Philosophizing with Transdisciplinarity, Relational Knowledge and Ethics in Education for Sustainable Development

    • Marie Grice
    Pages 19-35

  4. Pupils’ Views on Moral Competence in School

    • Annika Lilja
    Pages 37-53

  5. Discourses of Available and Sustainable Lives: Ethical Literacy Offered to Tweens Through Fiction Reading

    • Christina Osbeck
    Pages 55-72

  6. Fiction at School for Educational Purposes: What Opportunities Are Students Given to Act as Moral Subjects?

    • Anna Lyngfelt
    Pages 73-84

  7. An Aesthetic and Ethical Perspective on Art-Based Environmental Education and Sustainability from a Phenomenological Viewpoint

    • Margaretha Häggström
    Pages 85-103

  8. Challenging and Expanding the Notion of Sustainability Within Early Childhood Education: Perspectives from Post-humanism and/or New Materialism

    • Kassahun Weldemariam
    Pages 105-126

  9. Windows on a Changing World: Using Children’s Literature as an Aesth/Ethical Trope in Early Years Education for Sustainability

    • Dawn L. Sanders
    Pages 127-136

  10. Aesthetic Experiences Related to Living Plants: A Starting Point in Framing Humans’ Relationship with Nature?

    • Eva Nyberg
    Pages 137-157

  11. Closing Remarks

    • Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck
    Pages 159-161

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 163-175
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About this book

This book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy. The book argues that teaching children to engage with nature is crucial if they are to develop a true understanding of sustainability and climate issues, and claims that sustainability education is much more successful when pupils are treated as moral agents rather than being passive subjects of testing and assessment. The collection brings together a range of fresh and creative perspectives on how issues around ethical literacies can be elaborated and expanded with regard to democratic sustainability education. The use of children´s books in teaching about sustainability is carefully explored, as are the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of environmental education. Including an afterword by Arjen Wals, Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, the book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the field of sustainability education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pedagogical Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck

About the editors

Olof Franck is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Senior Lecturer in Subject Matter Education in Social Studies at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.


Christina Osbeck is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Lecturer in Subject Matter Education in Social Studies at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development

  • Book Subtitle: Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation

  • Editors: Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49010-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49009-0Published: 12 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84065-9Published: 07 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49010-6Published: 06 May 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 175

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Early Childhood Education, Sustainable Development, Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Teaching and Teacher Education, Children's Literature

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