Ecoliteracy and Dewey's educational philosophy: implications for future leaders

Inna Semetsky

doi:10.1108/14636681011020164

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Ecoliteracy and Dewey's educational philosophy: implications for future leaders

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Title:	Ecoliteracy and Dewey's educational philosophy: implications for future leaders
Author(s):	Inna Semetsky, (Based at the Institute of Advanced Study for Humanity, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia)
Citation:	Inna Semetsky, (2010) "Ecoliteracy and Dewey's educational philosophy: implications for future leaders", foresight, Vol. 12 Iss: 1, pp.31 - 44
Keywords:	Education, Knowledge creation, Leadership, Systems theory
Article type:	Conceptual paper
DOI:	10.1108/14636681011020164 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Acknowledgements:	A version of this paper titled “Developing ecoliteracy as a sub-discipline of educational philosophy” was presented at the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Conference “The Ownership and Dissemination of Knowledge”, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 4-7 December 2008.
Abstract:	Purpose – This conceptual paper aims to explore ecoliteracy in education as originated in Fritjof Capra's ongoing efforts to foster ecological awareness through schools. Future leaders as ecoliterate will have developed an enhanced perception, a sense of value-judgment in experience and sustainable self and other relations. Design/methodology/approach – The argument is supported by contemporary science of the complementary pairs as based on coordination dynamics. Findings – The paper presents Capra's work positioning it alongside new “transdisciplinary education”. The paper argues for the critical examination of the particular structure of knowledge able to inform/develop ecoliteracy, as well as of the nature of educational leadership. Originality/value – The paper revisits John Dewey's philosophy and his pragmatic inquiry as especially significant for developing ecological thinking and presents his method of deliberation as remarkably similar to “imaginative narrative”, one of the methodologies of futures studies.