Environmental Education as a Lived-Body Practice? A Contemplative Pedagogy Perspective
February 1, 2017 Jani Pulkki, B. Dahlin, Veli-Matti Värri
Environmental education usually appeals to the students’ knowledge and rational understanding. Even though this is needed, there is a neglected aspect of learning ecologically fruitful action; that of the lived-body. This paper introduces the lived-body as an important site for learning ecological action. An argument is made for the need of a biophilia revolution, in which refined experience of...