عنوان

Place and Personal Commitment In Teaching Environmental Ethics

Number

LA129860

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Place and Personal Commitment In Teaching Environmental Ethics

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Philip Cafaro

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This essay, a personal account of teaching environmental ethics, advances two main points. First, focusing on local environmental issues makes for better classes. Teachers can take advantage of local environmental expertise at their institutions and in the wider community; local focus provides a good balance given philosophy's tendency to abstractness; students tend to feel more engaged and excited about the class. Second, environmental ethics classes should spend more time helping students articulate their own ethical positions and showing them how to act upon them. In this way, our classes will better prepare and inspire students to do right by nature. This essay, a personal account of teaching environmental ethics, advances two main points. First, focusing on local environmental issues makes for better classes. Teachers can take advantage of local environmental expertise at their institutions and in the wider community; local focus provides a good balance given philosophy's tendency to abstractness; students tend to feel more engaged and excited about the class. Second, environmental ethics classes should spend more time helping students articulate their own ethical positions and showing them how to act upon them. In this way, our classes will better prepare and inspire students to do right by nature.

Date of Publication

2004

Physical description

366-376

Title

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Volume Number

8/2-3

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5357

Subject Term

COMMITMENT

Subject Term

CONSUMPTION

Subject Term

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Subject Term

PLACE

Subject Term

TEACHING

Philip Cafaro

Call Number

10.1163/1568535042690727

Electronic name

p

[Article]

275578

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