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- Title
EDUCATING FOR THE FUTURE: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH THE LENS OF HANS JONAS.
- Authors
OLIVEIRA, Jelson; Luiz TEDESCO, Anderson; VASCONCELOS, Thiago
- Abstract
This article aims to demonstrate how, according to the German philosopher Hans Jonas, responsibility towards the future should be embraced as an educational task in our time, given the severity of the climate and environmental crisis affecting us. To achieve this, we intend to illustrate how this task involves a pedagogy of catastrophe (understood as a "heuristic of fear" that prepares for the avoidance of evil, thus being a political attitude) and a confirmation, maintenance, and grounding of the idea of humanity (understood as human authenticity in its interdependence with all other forms of life). We will conclude by showing how, for Jonas, the task of environmental education should foster a sense of belonging to humanity and how this task involves both raising awareness about the seriousness of the situation and promoting a lifestyle based on caution, modesty, and frugality. In this way, we aim to demonstrate how Jonas's ideas can be important for the debate on environmental education. The type of research conducted is a bibliographic analysis of the author's texts, which will be analyzed using hermeneutic methodology. Ultimately, the problem analyzed in the article is: in what ways does the ethics of responsibility proposed by Hans Jonas offer innovative insights for addressing the contemporary challenges of environmental education?.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change; CONSCIOUSNESS raising; POLITICAL attitudes; ENVIRONMENTAL education; PHILOSOPHERS
- Publication
Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação, 2024, Vol 19, p1
- ISSN
2446-8606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21723/riaee.v19iesp.1.18422