School Strikes, Environmental Ethical Values, and Democracy

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ID23200071
AuthorsOle Andreas Kvamme (0000-0003-0911-1850, University of Oslo, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume8
Issue1
Pages6-27
Publication date2019-12-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudier i Pædagogisk Filosofi (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2244-9140 • E-ISSN: 2244-9140
PublisherDet Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7146/spf.v8i1.117967
OpenAlexW3007028638
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited2

The aim of this paper is to contribute to an understanding of the school strikes for climate, initiated in August 2018 by the Swedish student Greta Thunberg, soon to become a global social movement involving hundreds of thousands of students. I examine 10 speeches of Thunberg as recontextualizations of environmental ethical values that have been formulated within the context of United Nations. With this approach, guided by an ethical and educational interest grounded in moral education, and informed by conceptions of Seyla Benhabib, this paper demonstrates how students become democratic citizens appropriating the concern for future generations as a cosmopolitan claim in a resistance to exclusions from current politics.

Context (archaeology) · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Ecology · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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