Seeking Return to Green -- Environmental Ethics Education

Author: Zeng Jianping
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Environmental ethics education is a process of recognizing values and clarifying concepts. It is a profound education that transforms values, shapes "ecological personalities," and cultivates environmental awareness. It is an integration of quality education, personality education, social education, universal education, continuing education, and lifelong education. It holds a unique and important position in the comprehensive development of individuals, environmental protection practices, the implementation of sustainable development, and the proposal of ecological civilization. This book takes the present and future as its temporal dimension and theory and practice as its coordinate framework, proposing some novel propositions and concepts. Grounded in the relationship between global ecological issues and moral education in the 21st century, it systematically elaborates on the theoretical foundation, essential characteristics, organizational structure, model development, activity elements, functions, and values of environmental ethics education, as well as its relationship with environmental ethics and environmental education. It deeply reveals the necessity, inevitability, and possibility of environmental ethics education, and offers its own summaries and generalizations of environmental ethics education both in China and abroad.