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A Burkean Approach to Education in a Time of Ecological Crisis
- Author(s):
- Robert Victor Wess (see profile)
- Date:
- 2010
- Group(s):
- LSL Linguistics and Literature, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Science and Literature
- Subject(s):
- Ecocriticism, Humanities, Ecology, Literature
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6M88H
- Abstract:
- Conceived humanistically, education is the study of what it means to be human. For Burke, humans are "symbol-using animals" or "bodies that learn language." Burke understands humans both biologically, as part of the earth's ecosystem, and linguistically, as a distinctive way to inhabit the earth. This combination points toward the day when science and the humanities can stop talking past one another ("the two cultures") in order to begin to learn from one another.
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- Parlor Press
- Pub. Date:
- 2010
- Book Title:
- Humanistic Critique of Education: Teaching and Learning as Symbolic Action
- Author/Editor:
- Ed. Peter M. Smudde
- Chapter:
- 8
- Page Range:
- 166 - 186
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60235-157-8
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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