The quest for a relevant environmental pedagogy in the African context: Insights from unhu/ubuntu philosophy
The quest for a relevant environmental pedagogy in the African context: Insights from unhu/ubuntu philosophy
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在非洲背景下寻求相关的环境教育学：unhu/ubuntu 哲学的见解
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10.5897/jene12.052
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2012
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M. Madondo
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作者：
Godfrey Museka;M. Madondo
如果人类要成功地管理工业化和现代化带来的环境后果，追求环境的可持续性和自然资源的可持续利用已成为强制性的。对环境危机的教育反应包括在正规和非正规教育环境中引入环境教育或可持续发展教育以及最近的气候变化可持续发展教育。1992年地球首脑会议《21世纪议程》第36章和联合国教育促进可持续发展十年等所概括的国际论述为这些教育产品的教学提供了指导。这些倡议提倡结合土著学习环境问题的方法。在津巴布韦这样的后殖民国家，面临的挑战是，课程中仍然有“外来的”认识论和教学实践，损害了对环境问题的有效教学。有必要将环境教育学根植于本土宇宙论和生态智慧的哲学中，以实现“绿色”课程。本文提倡一种嵌入unhu/ubuntu哲学的宗教文化方法，以实现环境的可持续利用。本研究从现象学的角度探讨原住民的信仰和习俗，以减少对自然环境的肆意滥用。
The quest for environmental sustainability and sustainable use of natural resources has become mandatory if humanity is to successfully manage the environmental fall-out consequent upon industrialisation and modernisation. Educational responses to the environmental crisis involve introducing environmental education or education for sustainable development and of late Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in formal and non-formal educational contexts. Teaching and learning in these educational offerings is informed by international discourses encapsulated by Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 of 1992 Earth Summit and the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, among others. These initiatives advocate incorporating indigenous ways of learning about environmental issues. The challenge, in post-colonial states like Zimbabwe, is that curricula still have ‘alien’ epistemological and pedagogical practices vitiating effective teaching and learning of environmental issues. There is need to ground environmental pedagogy in philosophies on indigenous cosmology and eco-wisdom so as to ‘green’ curricula. This article advocates a religio-cultural approach, embedded in the philosophy of unhu/ubuntu, for sustainable use of the environment. A phenomenological perspective is used in this study to explore indigenous beliefs and practices that could be used to reduce the wanton abuse of the natural environment.
Key words: Unhu/ubuntu, environmental pedagogy, eco-wisdom, animate, inanimate, cosmology.