Greening up Politics, or the debate on environmental sustainability

We consider that the Environmental Crisis, as a Civilizing Crisis, is related to the way of learning and gaining access to new knowledge. Therefore, we argue that teaching must pave the way for the University to open the appropriate space to encourage debate, reflection, to learn about this crisis a...

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Autor principal: Gotta, Claudia Andrea
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Lenguaje:Español
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Publicado: Secretaría Académica | UNR 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://www.e-universitas.edu.ar/index.php/journal/article/view/147
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Sumario:We consider that the Environmental Crisis, as a Civilizing Crisis, is related to the way of learning and gaining access to new knowledge. Therefore, we argue that teaching must pave the way for the University to open the appropriate space to encourage debate, reflection, to learn about this crisis and the alternatives to tackle it. As participants in some way or another, we hold that from such educational practices and interactions we have succeeded in clarifying and questioning knowledge stuck to the dogmatisms of the “Unsustainable Modernity”. The latter standpoint has always been functional to the manufacturing imperative of the market.