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In her thought-provoking study, Redefining Moral Education, Kathryn Wayne explores the role of education in developing a new ecological morality. Using two novels by Ursula Le Guin, The Word for the World Is Forest (1972) and Always Coming Home (1985), Dr. Wayne explores how language plays an essential part in our apprehension of the relationship between nature and culture.
Tracing the history of ecological thought in the Western world, Kathryn Wayne analyses how Le Guin's work relates to recent works by deep ecologists, social ecologists and ecofeminists, as well as leading influences in moral theory and education - Karl Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan, Carl Rogers and Nel Noddings - and how Le Guin uses metaphors to highlight cultural behaviors and practices, thus giving a unique character to her contribution.
Kathryn Wayne demonstrates how Le Guin's use of language to create the ecocentric worlds of her novels can be held as an example from which we can redefine morality in terms of our environment. While the role of language in shaping thought has been thoroughly explored, it remains to further explore the role of language as applied to moral education.
Redefining Moral Education provides us with a ground breaking analysis of the relationship between rhetorical and environmental practices, of importance not simply to educators, but to all of us.
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American Didactic fiction, Didactic fiction, American, Environmental ethics, Environmental protection, Environmental protection in literature, Ethics, Ethics in literature, History and criticism, Human ecology in literature, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Environmental protection, Nature in literature, Le guin, ursula k., 1929-2018, Environmental responsibility, Didactic fiction, history and criticismShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Redefining moral education: life, Le Guin, and language
1996, Austin & Winfield, Austin & Winfield, Publishers, Incorporated
in English
1880921863 9781880921869
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-162).
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