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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes

The Wabash Center

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Author
Bowers, C. A.
Publisher
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
Bowers examines how the educational process perpetuates cultural myths that contribute to the ecological crisis, particularly how thought patterns from the past are reproduced through the metaphorical language used in the classroom. He suggests that a more ecologically sustainable ideology is being formulated by such writers as Aldo Leopold and Wendell Berry. (From the Publisher)