From the Archimedean point to circles in the sand—Post-sustainable curriculum and the critical subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8856835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pasi Takkinen (0000-0002-2583-981X, Tampere University, corresponding author), Jani Pulkki (0000-0001-7058-5364, University of Oulu), Tere Vadén (0000-0001-9076-719X, BIOS Research Unit, Helsinki, Finland) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 772-783 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2023.2274275 |
| OpenAlex | W4387999946 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
Critical thinking (CT) is frequently mentioned as a key competence in sustainability curricula.In this context our era is often diagnosed as being 'post-truth' , indicating an epistemic concern.However, emerging 'post-sustainable' views in education indicate that environmental crises are posing increasingly existential concerns, which might partly explain why simple consciousness-raising sometimes faces denial or fails to promote sustainable action.To overcome this challenge, we undertake a philosophical critique of modern (individual, rational, autonomous) subjectivity assumed in CT and much of curricular thinking.We follow the 'ontological turn' where criticality means self-reflective questioning of one's own being-in-the-world.One acute question concerns energy, especially fossil fuels, which constitute much of the autonomous experience of modern, critical subjectivity, while simultaneously endangering the future horizon of that same subjectivity.Climate strikes at schools and the yellow vest movements indicate, in their own ways, how ecologically problematic fossil fuels are bending modern rationality into unpredicted directions.Metaphoric Archimedes and his 'circles in the sand' demonstrate the vulnerability of critical thought facing post-sustainability.This vulnerability should be addressed in curriculum theory, since it is interdependent persons-rather than independent subjects-who are open to sustainable transformation and action
Action (physics · Curriculum · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Rationality · Sociology · Subjectivity · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Philosophy
Dark Ecology
Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis
Social class, solipsism, and contextualism
Ethics, Nafthism, and the Fossil Subject
Ecosocial Autonomy as an Educational Ideal
Student-Centered Learning and Sustainability
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change
Climate change anxiety and mental health
The Human Condition
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature
The ‘end of the world’ vs. the ‘end of the month’
Humility imparts the wonders of nature
From critical thinking to criticality and back again
Discovering earth and the missing masses—technologically informed education for a post-sustainable future
Ecofeminism as Politics
Energy without Conscience
Petro-masculinity
Culture and the Independent Self
Situated Knowledges
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |