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Moral Values and the Arts in Environmental Education: Towards an Ethics of Aesthetic Appreciation
Author(s) -
Carr David
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.0309-8249.2004.00377.x
Subject(s) - environmental education , values education , environmental ethics , character education , moral character , moral development , sustainable development , the arts , sociology , character (mathematics) , moral education , environmental adult education , education for sustainable development , psychology , engineering ethics , social psychology , pedagogy , political science , law , philosophy , engineering , geometry , mathematics
There appear to be various respects in which the outdoor environment has been regarded as significant for education in general and moral education in particular. Whereas some educationalists have considered the environment to be an important site of character development, others have regarded attention to conservation and sustainable development as pressing moral educational concerns in a world of widespread human environmental abuse. The following paper argues that approaches to environmental education that proceed by way of character education or environmental ethics may yet fall short of the central goal of promoting intrinsic appreciation of nature and the outdoors, and explores an alternative strategy focused on exposure to the arts.