Overview

Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic analysis of problems and solutions regarding the most pressing threats that humankind is facing. The book makes a case for the importance of education responding to significant threats; including climate change, pandemics, decline in global biodiversity, overpopulation, egoism, ideologies, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, inequality, artificial intelligence, and ignorance and the distortion of truth. Written by leading experts in their field based on cutting-edge research, the chapters explore these issues and offer suggestions for how education can address these problems in the future. This groundbreaking and highly topical book will be an essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education research, environmental studies, educational politics and organizational management.

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Author:   Herner Saeverot (Western Norway University, Norway)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367894856

ISBN 10:   0367894858
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   23 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Basic Constructs in the Science of Sustainability Education 2 SSE-Based Frame of Reference. Outlines for a Global Curriculum: Turning Existential Threats into Resources 3 Climate change. Foundations for a Transformative Learning Agenda 4 Biodiversity. The Decline in Global Biodiversity and How Education Can be Part of the Solution 5 Overpopulation: A Century of Debate that Deserves Re-Examination 6 Infectious Disease, Pandemics, and Education. From Miasms to Covid-19 7 Infectious Disease Threats—Antibiotic Resistance, Covid-19 and Future Pandemics 8 Holding Oneself in the World: Is there a Need for Good Egoism? 9 Inequality: Education, Opportunity and Existential Threat 10 Ideologies, Threats and Sustainability. How can Education and Knowledge of the Unforeseen Help Reduce the Threat Posed by Ideologies? 11 Understanding the Threat of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare 12 Artificial Intelligence: Is the Power Matched with Responsibility? 13 Ignorance and Truth Afterword

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Herner Saeverot is Professor of Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, and Professor II at NLA University College in Oslo, Norway.

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