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Philosophy of education in a new key: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus
Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Petar Jandrić, University of Wolverhampton
  • Jimmy Jaldemark, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall
  • Zoe Hurley, Zayed University
  • Brendan Bartram, University of Wolverhampton
  • Adam Matthews, University of Birmingham
  • Michael Jopling, University of Wolverhampton
  • Julia Mañero, University of Seville
  • Alison MacKenzie, Queen's University Belfast
  • Jones Irwin, Dublin City University
  • Ninette Rothmüller, The Doctorate-Granting Institution of the City University of New York
  • Benjamin Green, Beijing Normal University
  • Shane J. Ralston, Woolf University
  • Olli Pyyhtinen, Tampereen Yliopisto
  • Sarah Hayes, University of Wolverhampton
  • Jake Wright, University of Minnesota Rochester
  • Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University
  • Marek Tesar, University of Auckland
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract

© 2020 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. This paper explores relationships between environment and education after the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of philosophy of education in a new key developed by Michael Peters and the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). The paper is collectively written by 15 authors who responded to the question: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Their answers are classified into four main themes and corresponding sections. The first section, ‘As we bake the earth, let's try and bake it from scratch’, gathers wider philosophical considerations about the intersection between environment, education, and the pandemic. The second section, ‘Bump in the road or a catalyst for structural change?’, looks more closely into issues pertaining to education. The third section, ‘If you choose to fail us, we will never forgive you’, focuses to Greta Thunberg’s messages and their responses. The last section, ‘Towards a new (educational) normal’, explores future scenarios and develops recommendations for critical emancipatory action. The concluding part brings these insights together, showing that resulting synergy between the answers offers much more then the sum of articles’ parts. With its ethos of collectivity, interconnectedness, and solidarity, philosophy of education in a new key is a crucial tool for development of post-pandemic (philosophy of) education.

Publisher
Routledge
Keywords
  • coronavirus,
  • Covid-19,
  • environment,
  • new key,
  • new normal,
  • pandemic,
  • Philosophy of education,
  • postdigital
Scopus ID
85091096518
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Bronze: This publication is openly available on the publisher’s website but without an open license
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1811678
Citation Information
Petar Jandrić, Jimmy Jaldemark, Zoe Hurley, Brendan Bartram, et al.. "Philosophy of education in a new key: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus" Educational Philosophy and Theory (2020) - 21 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0013-1857" target="_blank">0013-1857</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zoe-hurley/12/