Considerations arising in the context of burgeoning concerns about the environment can provoke an exploration of issues that have significance both for environmental education in particular and education more generally. Notions of the "greater whole" and "systemic wisdom" that feature in some strands of environmental discourse are a case in point.…

Although the idea of nature has all but disappeared from recent discussion of education, it remains highly relevant to the philosophy and practice of education, since tacit notions of human nature and what constitutes underlying reality--the "natural" order of things--necessarily orientates education in fundamental ways. It is argued that…