Ecological Sustainability, Culture, and Education

A Special Issue of Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education

Bibliographic Data

ID12814671
AuthorsSeonaigh Macpherson (0000-0001-8478-2852, University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Jing Lin (0000-0003-4854-6769, University of Maryland, College Park)
Year2008
Volume2
Issue4
Pages251-258
Publication date2008-10-14
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiaspora Indigenous and Minority Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1559-5692 • E-ISSN: 1559-5706
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15595690802352796
OpenAlexW2049894235
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

The contributors to this special issue of Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education (DIME) address this riddle in diverse ways. Before introducing their perspectives, some context is in order. For most of us inhabiting the leeward side of the mountain of modernity, this riddle isn’t easy to address, let alone to answer. We live in the arid aftermath of hegemonic disciplinary constructs and social and economic practices aimed at separating and delineating all things biological (ecology, nature, non-human) from all things social (economy, culture, human). And so this riddle may well leave us pensive, even baffled, with an uncharacteristic loss of words; or, so I assume given the paucity of research, scholarship and philosophical inquiry in education aimed at understanding the overlapping ecological and cultural sustainability challenges facing education in our time. Yet, discerning the relation among education, culture, and ecology is

Biology · Context (archaeology · Diaspora · Discipline · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Indigenous · Modernity · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Gender Studies · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ecology

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