world culture theory; Sweden; sustainabiltiy; environmentalism; exceptionalism
Abstract :
[en] This chapter explores to what extent the global agenda of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an imagined global agenda or, in fact, an extrapolated cultural agenda imposing culturally-imprinted views of the world as a whole, including the framing of its bearers (the sustainable eco-citizen). Two questions are of interest here: How did environmentalism become simultaneously globalized and educationalized issues? What happens when this practice, justified as a global movement, is translated in a specific national culture? We illustrate this by referring to the example of WWF and WWF teaching materials for ESD that were developed in the specific Swedish context.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
Ideland, Malin
TRÖHLER, Daniel ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)
Language :
English
Title :
Calling for Sustainability: WWF’s Global Agenda and Educating Swedish Exceptionalism
Publication date :
2015
Main work title :
Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems: Between the National and the Global