Review article
ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY BETWEEN CULTURAL TRADITION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ROUTINE
Ivan Cifrić
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper is about the topical issue — environmental literacy, contradictories and instrumentalization in the industrial society, that follows from its practical needs, but also from requests for a change of values and cultural set forms in the context of the relation man — nature.
Industrial society instrumentalizes the role of school and also of environmental education, demanding its functionality. Contrary to this, pre–modern society has a tradition of reproducing knowledge and behaviour towards environment, mediated with the stable symbolic society structure. The hastening, charasteristic to modern society, obstructs the establishing of that kind of tradition and an old–hand behaviour. Without cultural understanding of the relation man — nature there is not even a cultural nor environmental tolerance, so environmental literacy does not become practical awareness with cognitive, affective and connotative level. Therefore it is necessary to consider environmental literacy in detail in the context of culture.
Keywords
environmental education; environmental civilizing; environmental literacy; knowledge mediation; pluralism of cultures; the second enlightment; tradition
Hrčak ID:
141456
URI
Publication date:
15.7.1996.
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