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Publication Date: 2020
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Anthropocentric Tendencies in Environmental Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Nature-Based Learning
Ethics and Education, v15 n3 p355-370 2020
Although environmental and eco-centric efforts have been made in education, the sphere of influence and cogency of these efforts is limited by their anthropocentric framing of the environment. In order to subvert anthropocentric ideals, it is necessary to reposition humans in relation to other living and non-living forms. This study examines the anthropocentric tendencies perpetuated in environmental education efforts. The impetus of this work is to locate specific moments wherein human dominion is invoked within educational efforts that purportedly champion environmentalism. I analyze the nature-based learning movement in particular, and illuminate these anthropocentric tendencies using critical discourse analysis. I take up variations of thematic, structural, and semiotic analyses in order to reveal how the environment is framed within a nature-based learning professional development webinar . This research poses implications for environmental educators broadly, nature-based learning instructors specifically, and researchers of posthumanist education as well.
Descriptors: Ethics, Environmental Education, Climate, Teaching Methods, Conservation (Environment), Semiotics, Discourse Analysis, Educational Environment, Ecology
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Language: English
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