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ERIC Number: EJ1235019
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1350-4622
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Ecoliteracy and the Trouble with Reading: Ecoliteracy Considered in Terms of Goethe's 'Delicate Empiricism' and the Potential for Reading in the Book of Nature
Code, Jonathan M.
Environmental Education Research, v25 n8 p1267-1280 2019
This article has its roots in both literacy studies and environmental education. Beginning with a critical consideration of what it might mean to be 'literate' I argue that a re-evaluation of what it means to be "ecoliterate" is in order. I challenge current articulations of ecoliteracy, both in their relation to foundational literacy practices (such as reading and writing) as well as in how ecoliteracy has tended to be 'bounded' by the science of ecology. Wedding 'ecoliteracy' to ecological science restricts its potential--I argue--to be realized as a bone fide literacy practice. Historically the concept 'reading in the book of nature' had greater currency than it does today, evident in--for instance--the work of J.W. Goethe. Goethe's 'delicate empiricism' and his attention to the cultivation of 'exact sensorial imagination' warrant greater attention where ecoliteracy is being discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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