"Why Study for A Future We Won't Have?"
"Why Study for A Future We Won’t Have?" is was a sign carried by a student at a protest at a local school board. It provided the motivation for this collection. Herein are philosophical, poetic and practical essays that question the image of education we have all inherited, and provide encouragement, commiserations and examples of a more ecologically sound understanding of the living disciplines of knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in school. is book also explores the parallels between this ecopedagogy and hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is not just a research method about curriculum, teaching and learning, but is itself deeply pedagogical. e author has been exploring these issues since the early 1990s. Why mention this? Up against the dominant discourses that bend and shape our individual and collective lives in and outside of schools, our task is inevitably tough and long-standing. We all need encouragement and commiseration in these ecologically sorrowful times.
David Jardine is a Full Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. His former employ involved supervising student-teachers in school classrooms and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in pedagogy and curriculum. He is the author of 14 previous books, 130 articles in refereed journals and over 45 chapters in various book collections. He is now receiving a thorough early childhood education from his two grandsons, feeling tired and happy, and can hardly write fast enough to keep up.