Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.31.4.2
The Relationship Between Wisdom and Environmental Education as a Response to the Environmental Crisis and Climate Change
Marija Sertić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0841-1202
; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper analyzes the multidimensional concept of wisdom based on which it develops a structure for a separate subject in primary and secondary schools, Environmental Education and Wisdom, as one of the key responses in a constructive confrontation with the global environmental crisis, especially climate change. The cultivation of wisdom, especially through environmental education, is a necessary response to the environmental and climate crisis which are primarily an ethical crisis and a crisis of human morality. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part examines the multidimensional concept of wisdom — as a cognitive process, as a virtue, and as a personal good — which helps us recognize how our judgments and actions do good or harm to the overall life on the planet. Numerous ecological disturbances and devastation of ecosystems occur locally and globally due to the lack of wisdom and humanity’s reckless activity. Wisdom provides a guideline for morally and politically responsible action and underlines the long-term rather than the short-term consequences of human impact on the Earth, especially the climate. The second part develops a model of a separate subject Environmental Education and Wisdom. We need a more serious approach to environmental education that will take into account what is ethically, wisely, and morally responsible towards the Earth and its inhabitants, and not only what brings economic profit and the satisfaction of human interests.
Keywords
wisdom; the multidimensional concept of wisdom; ecological crisis; climate change; climate crisis; ecological education; curriculum
Hrčak ID:
313583
URI
Publication date:
24.1.2024.
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