Patrick Howard
Biographic Data
| ID | 6675558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Howard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Howard |
| SIGNATURE | HOWARD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cape Breton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0908-6109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Re-listening to the Literal
This article revisits Listening to the Literal: Orientations Towards How Nature Communicates (Blenkinsop & Piersol, 2013), a phenomenological inquiry that proposed the radical idea that nature speaks—literally, not metaphorically. Through renewed dialogue with the authors and a tracing of how their thinking has evolved over the past twelve years, this paper explores the continued resonance and expansion of their work. Drawing from conversations, …
An ethical imperative for higher education
Language-ing the Earth
This paper investigates human relationship with the larger living landscape that is grounded in experiential renewal. Phenomenology is antithesis to the process of abstraction and objectification through which the world as we experience it is diminished by conceptualization and categorization. Recent studies to understand the natural world as a hermeneutic text offers important reflections on the human mediation of the meaning of the more-than-hu…
Hermeneutics in an Age of Alternative Facts, Fake News, and Climate Change Denial
A Review of Clingerman, F., Treanor, B., Drenthen, M., and Utsler, D. (Eds.) Interpreting Nature: The emerging field of environmental hermeneutics
Ecology, Phenomenology, and Culture
Education is central to two recent international efforts to address an impending ecological global crisis. The Earth Charter and the UN document Decade for Education for Sustainable Development 2005–2014 challenge all people to consider the socio-ecological, ethical, local and global dimensions of human life. These documents state clearly the international community now strongly believes we need to foster through education the competencies of hea…
The Pedagogy of Place
The impetus for this article was research I conducted while living with children on the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, during the culmination of decades of blatant disregard for the marine ecosystem. At the heart of the social and ecological devastation happening in Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador communities are matters of environmental justice and ecological rights. The research project was born of a belief that education, in its present for…
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The Pedagogy of Place
The impetus for this article was research I conducted while living with children on the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, during the culmination of decades of blatant disregard for the marine ecosystem. At the heart of the social and ecological devastation happening in Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador communities are matters of environmental justice and ecological rights. The research project was born of a belief that education, in its present for…
Ecology, Phenomenology, and Culture
Education is central to two recent international efforts to address an impending ecological global crisis. The Earth Charter and the UN document Decade for Education for Sustainable Development 2005–2014 challenge all people to consider the socio-ecological, ethical, local and global dimensions of human life. These documents state clearly the international community now strongly believes we need to foster through education the competencies of hea…
Language-ing the Earth
This paper investigates human relationship with the larger living landscape that is grounded in experiential renewal. Phenomenology is antithesis to the process of abstraction and objectification through which the world as we experience it is diminished by conceptualization and categorization. Recent studies to understand the natural world as a hermeneutic text offers important reflections on the human mediation of the meaning of the more-than-hu…
Hermeneutics in an Age of Alternative Facts, Fake News, and Climate Change Denial
A Review of Clingerman, F., Treanor, B., Drenthen, M., and Utsler, D. (Eds.) Interpreting Nature: The emerging field of environmental hermeneutics
An ethical imperative for higher education
Re-listening to the Literal
This article revisits Listening to the Literal: Orientations Towards How Nature Communicates (Blenkinsop & Piersol, 2013), a phenomenological inquiry that proposed the radical idea that nature speaks—literally, not metaphorically. Through renewed dialogue with the authors and a tracing of how their thinking has evolved over the past twelve years, this paper explores the continued resonance and expansion of their work. Drawing from conversations, …
Environmental ethics (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental education (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Indigenous and Place-Based Education (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (2 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2 works)