David Pepper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 195220 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Pepper |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Pepper |
| FIRMA | PEPPER D |
| AFILIACIONES | Science Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2228-7677 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Roots of Modern Environmentalism
Originally published in 1984, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism provides a historical, philosophical and ideological background to environmentalism. Topics covered include, the roots of technological environmentalism, the medieval cosmology and Bacon’s philosophy, the non-scientific roots of ecological environmentalism, such as Romanticism and its scientific roots in the theories of Malthus and Darwin. The Marxist perspective on Nature is also…
Learners’ attitudes to mixed-attainment grouping
There is a substantial international literature around the impact of different types of grouping by attainment on the academic and personal outcomes of students. This literature, however, is sparse in student voices, especially in relation to mixed-attainment practices. Research has indicated that students of different attainment levels might have different experiences and views of grouping structures. This paper represents a significant contribu…
Why is it difficult for schools to establish equitable practices in allocating students to attainment ‘sets’
Research has consistently shown ‘ability’ grouping (tracking) to be prey to poor practice, and to perpetuate inequity. A feature of these problems is inequitable and inaccurate practice in allocation to groups or ‘tracks’. Yet little research has examined whether such practices might be improved. Here, we examine survey and interview findings from a large-scale intervention study of grouping practices in 126 English secondary schools. We find tha…
The symbolic violence of setting
‘Setting’ is a widespread practice in the UK , despite little evidence of its efficacy and substantial evidence of its detrimental impact on those allocated to the lowest sets. Taking a Bourdieusian approach, we propose that setting can be understood as a practice through which the social and cultural reproduction of dominant power relations is enacted within schools. Drawing on survey data from 12,178 Year 7 (age 11/12) students and discussion g…
Exploring the relative lack of impact of research on ‘ability grouping’ in England
Grouping students by ‘ability’ is a topic of long-standing contention in English education policy, research and practice. While policy-makers have frequently advocated the practice as reflecting educational ‘standards’, research has consistently failed to find significant benefits of ‘ability’ grouping; and indeed has identified disadvantages for some (low-attaining) pupil groups. However, this research evidence has apparently failed to impact on…
On Contemporary Eco-socialism
Denis Cosgrove
Childhood Asthma, Air Quality, and Social Suffering Among Mexican Americans in California's San Joaquin Valley
Nearly one in five Mexican American children residing in California's San Joaquin Valley (the Valley) in 2007 had an asthma attack at some point in their life. Numerous epidemiological studies have suggested that compared with other ethnic groups and Latino subgroups residing in the United States, Mexican origin children have the lowest rates of pediatric asthma. Ethnographic research conducted in central California, however, suggests otherwise. …
Tensions and Dilemmas of Ecotopianism
This paper examines some of many tensions associated with the utopian propensity that underlies much thinking and action in radical environmentalism. They include the tensions inherent within ecotopianism's approach to social change, its desire to embrace ecological universals, its general propensity to face Janus-like in the direction of both modernity and post-modernity, and its tendency towards a polarised stance on scale, and local and global…
Sustainable Development
The promotion of sustainable development opens up the debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, what constitutes social progress, and the character of development in the present and into the future. Answering the need for an introductory, comprehensive, yet critical book that explores the challenges involved in the implementation of sustainable development, this revealing text investigates this subject across different socio-po…
Utopianism and Environmentalism
This paper examines the ways in which utopianism permeates both radical and reformist environmentalism. Utopianism has created 'ecotopia', the radical environmentalist's utopia which has evolved from writing and action over the past half century. Ecotopianism's 'transgressive' potential in assisting change towards an ecological society is examined, and judged to be limited by idealism and unrealistic assessments of existing socio-economic dynamic…
Modern Environmentalism
Modern Environmentalism presents a comprehensive introduction to environmentalism, the origins of its main beliefs and ideas, and how these relate to modern environmental ideologies. Providing a historical overview of the development of attitudes to nature and the environment in society, the book examines key environmentalist ideas, influences and movements. Science's role in mediating our view of nature is emphasised throughout. This entirely ne…
Eco-Socialism
Benchmarking in Geography
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
Benchmarking in Geography
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
Assessing the Undergraduate Dissertation
This paper reports on a study of assessment of undergraduate dissertations in the seven departments which constitute the School of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes University. Information was gathered from documented material and interviews regarding criteria used in assessment of dissertations. This was analysed to identify the range of criteria across disciplines. Criteria were also examined by administration of a questionnaire asking …
Ecological modernisation or the ‘ideal model’ of sustainable development? Questions prompted at Europe's periphery
Some commentators see ecological modernisation as little more than a techno‐managerialist discourse legitimating the neoliberal free trade and modernisation agenda; others as having more radical potential presaging green social democratic government and strong sustainability. But on either reading, this discourse, forming the basis of EU environmental policies, contains weaknesses and contradictions. These emerge when examining the operationalisa…
Sustainable development and ecological modernization
The commonly discussed forms of ‘strong’ sustainable development are rooted in either ecocentric or anthropocentric perspectives. Both eco-socialism and social ecology constitute anthropocentric (or ‘homocentric’) strong sustainability: being essentially humanistic but also embracing stewardship of nature, environmentally benign but centred on social justice. The bases of this development model are reviewed. Its desirability is argued from the pe…
Sustainable development and ecological modernization
Misrepresenting deep ecology and the left
Political philosophy and environmentalism in Britain
Anthropocentrism, humanism and eco-socialism
In searching for a more coherent politics, ecologism should turn towards Marxism, rather than away from it. Marxism has valuable perspectives to shed on some of the questions about social justice which ecologism increasingly poses. The Marxist view of the society‐nature relationship is relevant to the mass of people, since it is fundamentally anthropocentric and humanist, not (like so‐called ‘deep’ ecology) ‘biocentric’ and tending towards anti‐h…
Post Environmentalism
Environmental Problems
Strategic Geography
The Geography of Peace and War
Wars have enormous impact on people, economies and the environment. This book is the first study of the critical issues of war and peace from a geographical perspective, exploring the spatial aspects of the cold war, the arms race and threatened nuclear conflict. A team of distinguished contributors from the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union examine how a kind of peace has been preserved in Europe while conflict has affected most …
Enhancing students' employability and self‐expression
‘Non‐traditional’ teaching methods emphasizing groupwork and speaking skills‐‐such as those detailed in appendices to this article‐‐should be widely adopted by HE geography teachers. Not only do they enhance students' intellectual development; they also enhance general employability. We discuss seven principles which our experience suggests are important in teaching these skills. Fulfilling them demands forethought and planning by the teacher, wh…
The symbolic violence of setting
‘Setting’ is a widespread practice in the UK , despite little evidence of its efficacy and substantial evidence of its detrimental impact on those allocated to the lowest sets. Taking a Bourdieusian approach, we propose that setting can be understood as a practice through which the social and cultural reproduction of dominant power relations is enacted within schools. Drawing on survey data from 12,178 Year 7 (age 11/12) students and discussion g…
Utopianism and Environmentalism
This paper examines the ways in which utopianism permeates both radical and reformist environmentalism. Utopianism has created 'ecotopia', the radical environmentalist's utopia which has evolved from writing and action over the past half century. Ecotopianism's 'transgressive' potential in assisting change towards an ecological society is examined, and judged to be limited by idealism and unrealistic assessments of existing socio-economic dynamic…
Learners’ attitudes to mixed-attainment grouping
There is a substantial international literature around the impact of different types of grouping by attainment on the academic and personal outcomes of students. This literature, however, is sparse in student voices, especially in relation to mixed-attainment practices. Research has indicated that students of different attainment levels might have different experiences and views of grouping structures. This paper represents a significant contribu…
Why is it difficult for schools to establish equitable practices in allocating students to attainment ‘sets’
Research has consistently shown ‘ability’ grouping (tracking) to be prey to poor practice, and to perpetuate inequity. A feature of these problems is inequitable and inaccurate practice in allocation to groups or ‘tracks’. Yet little research has examined whether such practices might be improved. Here, we examine survey and interview findings from a large-scale intervention study of grouping practices in 126 English secondary schools. We find tha…
Tensions and Dilemmas of Ecotopianism
This paper examines some of many tensions associated with the utopian propensity that underlies much thinking and action in radical environmentalism. They include the tensions inherent within ecotopianism's approach to social change, its desire to embrace ecological universals, its general propensity to face Janus-like in the direction of both modernity and post-modernity, and its tendency towards a polarised stance on scale, and local and global…
Environmental Problems
Ecological modernisation or the ‘ideal model’ of sustainable development? Questions prompted at Europe's periphery
Some commentators see ecological modernisation as little more than a techno‐managerialist discourse legitimating the neoliberal free trade and modernisation agenda; others as having more radical potential presaging green social democratic government and strong sustainability. But on either reading, this discourse, forming the basis of EU environmental policies, contains weaknesses and contradictions. These emerge when examining the operationalisa…
Physical and Human Integration
Childhood Asthma, Air Quality, and Social Suffering Among Mexican Americans in California's San Joaquin Valley
Nearly one in five Mexican American children residing in California's San Joaquin Valley (the Valley) in 2007 had an asthma attack at some point in their life. Numerous epidemiological studies have suggested that compared with other ethnic groups and Latino subgroups residing in the United States, Mexican origin children have the lowest rates of pediatric asthma. Ethnographic research conducted in central California, however, suggests otherwise. …
Benchmarking in Geography
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
Anthropocentrism, humanism and eco-socialism
In searching for a more coherent politics, ecologism should turn towards Marxism, rather than away from it. Marxism has valuable perspectives to shed on some of the questions about social justice which ecologism increasingly poses. The Marxist view of the society‐nature relationship is relevant to the mass of people, since it is fundamentally anthropocentric and humanist, not (like so‐called ‘deep’ ecology) ‘biocentric’ and tending towards anti‐h…
Political philosophy and environmentalism in Britain
Strategic Geography
Thinking again about tutorials
Paradigms lost
Thinking again about tutorials
Determinism, idealism and the politics of environmentalism—a view point
Over the past 15 years there have been ideological shifts in the ecologically‐based environmentalist movement. The earlier emphasis was on reactionary ideologies of neo‐Malthusianism and the lifeboat ethic, romantic anti‐urbanism and rural escapism. These were strongly underpinned by the notion of naturally‐imposed limits on human endeavour which sprang from a philosophy of environmental determinism. Now there is more emphasis upon human free wil…
The Geography of Peace and War
Wars have enormous impact on people, economies and the environment. This book is the first study of the critical issues of war and peace from a geographical perspective, exploring the spatial aspects of the cold war, the arms race and threatened nuclear conflict. A team of distinguished contributors from the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union examine how a kind of peace has been preserved in Europe while conflict has affected most …
Physical and Human Integration
New Economics” and the Deficiencies of Green Political Thinking
The Geography of Defence
Enhancing students' employability and self‐expression
‘Non‐traditional’ teaching methods emphasizing groupwork and speaking skills‐‐such as those detailed in appendices to this article‐‐should be widely adopted by HE geography teachers. Not only do they enhance students' intellectual development; they also enhance general employability. We discuss seven principles which our experience suggests are important in teaching these skills. Fulfilling them demands forethought and planning by the teacher, wh…
No Special Place for Geographers—No “Places” at All
Strategic Geography
Environmental Problems
Post Environmentalism
Political philosophy and environmentalism in Britain
Anthropocentrism, humanism and eco-socialism
In searching for a more coherent politics, ecologism should turn towards Marxism, rather than away from it. Marxism has valuable perspectives to shed on some of the questions about social justice which ecologism increasingly poses. The Marxist view of the society‐nature relationship is relevant to the mass of people, since it is fundamentally anthropocentric and humanist, not (like so‐called ‘deep’ ecology) ‘biocentric’ and tending towards anti‐h…
Misrepresenting deep ecology and the left
Sustainable development and ecological modernization
The commonly discussed forms of ‘strong’ sustainable development are rooted in either ecocentric or anthropocentric perspectives. Both eco-socialism and social ecology constitute anthropocentric (or ‘homocentric’) strong sustainability: being essentially humanistic but also embracing stewardship of nature, environmentally benign but centred on social justice. The bases of this development model are reviewed. Its desirability is argued from the pe…
Sustainable development and ecological modernization
Ecological modernisation or the ‘ideal model’ of sustainable development? Questions prompted at Europe's periphery
Some commentators see ecological modernisation as little more than a techno‐managerialist discourse legitimating the neoliberal free trade and modernisation agenda; others as having more radical potential presaging green social democratic government and strong sustainability. But on either reading, this discourse, forming the basis of EU environmental policies, contains weaknesses and contradictions. These emerge when examining the operationalisa…
Assessing the Undergraduate Dissertation
This paper reports on a study of assessment of undergraduate dissertations in the seven departments which constitute the School of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes University. Information was gathered from documented material and interviews regarding criteria used in assessment of dissertations. This was analysed to identify the range of criteria across disciplines. Criteria were also examined by administration of a questionnaire asking …
Benchmarking in Geography
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
Benchmarking in Geography
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
Modern Environmentalism
Modern Environmentalism presents a comprehensive introduction to environmentalism, the origins of its main beliefs and ideas, and how these relate to modern environmental ideologies. Providing a historical overview of the development of attitudes to nature and the environment in society, the book examines key environmentalist ideas, influences and movements. Science's role in mediating our view of nature is emphasised throughout. This entirely ne…
Eco-Socialism
Utopianism and Environmentalism
This paper examines the ways in which utopianism permeates both radical and reformist environmentalism. Utopianism has created 'ecotopia', the radical environmentalist's utopia which has evolved from writing and action over the past half century. Ecotopianism's 'transgressive' potential in assisting change towards an ecological society is examined, and judged to be limited by idealism and unrealistic assessments of existing socio-economic dynamic…
Sustainable Development
The promotion of sustainable development opens up the debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, what constitutes social progress, and the character of development in the present and into the future. Answering the need for an introductory, comprehensive, yet critical book that explores the challenges involved in the implementation of sustainable development, this revealing text investigates this subject across different socio-po…
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