Overview
- Includes an afterword by Arjen Wals which is free to download
- Examines education for sustainable development in schools through the lens of ethical literacy
- Argues that education for sustainable development is more successful if students learn to become engaged moral agents rather than through testing and assessment
- Explores how children acts as moral subjects through the medium of fiction, reading and art
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christina Osbeck is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Lecturer in Subject Matter Education in Social Studies at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation
Editors: Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49010-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49009-0Published: 12 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84065-9Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49010-6Published: 06 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 175
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Sustainable Development, Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Teaching and Teacher Education, Children's Literature