Environmental Education and Children's Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11951725 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Kouppanou (0000-0001-9679-9862, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute Lakatamia Nicosia Cyprus, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 944-959 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9752.12483 |
| OpenAlex | W3085301384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 11 |
During the Anthropocene, the epoch characterized by humans’ destructive actions on earth, a few seminal questions may be raised: What have we done? How can we do better? This type of questioning is of course echoed in environmental education, related educational policy and research. There is, however, a difference between general and educational discourses: in the first instance, the collective ‘we’ refers to mainly adult human beings; in the second, to children. The distinction may seem trivial, but it is in fact quite important: If humans have destroyed the earth and caused children the loss of their futures, then adult humans and children humans cannot be positioned in the same place in terms of humanity and agency. What's more, adults cannot look to children and their agency for hope or for a future. Children's agency thus demands a reorientation and a certain re-theorization. This paper deliberates on the type of children's agency that is promoted by various environmental discourses—human, posthuman and other—and discusses what kind of agency children can possibly attain
Agency (philosophy · Anthropocene · Environmental education · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Higher education · Humanity · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political science · Posthuman · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’
Exploring Galápagos children’s place attachment, local ecological knowledge, and pro-environmental behaviour
Education for the future
Anthropocene in Education and Education in Anthropocene
Who are the children that environmental education targets? Mapping geographic and conceptual boundaries in more-than-human environmental education research
Education for people-yet-to-come
The Effectiveness of the Parent–Child VOC-Focused Environmental Education Program
Futuristic scenarios of the general education school
Beyond pedagogical intention
Climate change and education in shades of blue
Rethinking student agency through ‘material agency’ in the context of learning in nature
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene
Learning through creative practices in the Anthropocene
Exhausted
Kantian moral education for the future of humanity
The posthumanist challenge to teaching or teaching's challenge to posthumanism
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |