Education for survival: An historical perspective

History of Education

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Aldrich, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Environment; Globalisation; History

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951199030     PISSN: 0046760X     EISSN: 14645130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00467600802331895     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Gary McCulloch, 'Publicizing the Educational Past', in History of Education for the Twenty-First Century, ed. David Crook and Richard Aldrich (London: Institute of Education, 2000), 1.
2. Martin Rees, Our Final Century: Will Civilisation Survive the Twenty-First Century? (London: Heinemann, 2003), 61.
3. Rees, Our Final Century, 8.
4. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (London: Black Swan, 2004), 19.
5. David Bellamy, 'Today's Forecast: Yet Another Blast of Hot Air', The Times, October 22, 2007.
6. Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, 514.
7. Goldilocks, because like the porridge it was just right. See Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? (London: Allen Lane, 2006).
8. Lewis Smith, 'Man's Footprints on the Ecosystem of Earth "Too Heavy to be Sustained"', The Times, October 24, 2006.
9. Ben Page, 'Culture and Attitudes', in Blair's Britain, ed. Anthony Seldon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 466. The two most positive responses were 'recycle/recycling' (23%) and 'low-energy light bulbs' (5%).
10. Proponent of the Gaia theory which sees the Earth, its material environment and organisms, as a living and self-regulating system. Gaia, the name of a Greek goddess, was suggested to Lovelock by his Devon neighbour, the novelist William Golding. Lovelock's many publications include: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
11. The Ages of Gaia (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988).
12. Homage to Gaia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
13. UNEP, Global Environment Outlook: Environment for Development (GEO4) as reported in The Times, October 26, 2007.
14. For an alternative view see Ross Clark, 'Of Course We Can Feed the World: Just Look at All the Unused Space', The Times, June 26, 2008.
15. James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia (London: Allen Lane, 2006), 141.
16. For a sobering example of the effects of overpopulation see Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (London: Little, Brown, 1998), 321-2, which argues that the Rwandan catastrophe was 'rooted in environment and demography'.
17. Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred (London: Allen Lane, 2006), xxxiv. Ferguson (p. 649) quotes estimates of between 167 and 188 million deaths 'by organized violence' during the twentieth century.
18. Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia, 157.
19. For a discussion of education as initiation see Richard Peters, Authority, Responsibility and Education (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959), ch. 8.
20. Richard Aldrich, Lessons from History of Education: The Selected Works of Richard Aldrich (London: Routledge, 2006), 1.
21. Matthew 5, 1-12.
22. John 14, 2-3.
23. John 3, 16.
24. James Kay-Shuttleworth, Recent Measures for the Promotion of Education in England (London: Ridgway, 1839), 67-8.
25. Sura 22, 6-7.
26. Riadhe El-Droubie, 'Religious Education: A Muslim Insight', in World Faiths in Education, ed. W. Owen Cole (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978), 161.
27. Werner Menski, 'Hinduism', in Ethical Issues in Six Religious Traditions, ed. Peggy Morgan and Clive Lawton (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), 7.
28. For a critique of attempts to reconcile faith and reason see Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great (London: Atlantic Books, 2007), 63-72.
29. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (London: Bantam Press, 2006).
30. Quoted in Dawkins, The God Delusion, 19.
31. For example, the current uncertainty over whether Homo habilis was the ancestor or contemporary of Homo erectus. For a stimulating conversation and booklet on the theme, 'Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?', see the Templeton Foundation website at http://www.templeton.org/belief.
32. See Howard Gardner, Five Minds for the Future (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2007) which outlines five minds: disciplined, synthesising, creating, respectful and ethical.
33. Fernando Aguilera, ed., César Manrique in His Own Words (Teguise: Fundación César Manrique, 1999), 62.
34. Donald Kyle, Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 181.
35. Kyle, Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World, 183.
36. Anton Powell, 'Dining Groups, Marriage, Homosexuality', in Sparta, ed. Michael Whitby (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002), 101.
37. Paul Cartledge, 'Spartan Wives: Liberation or Licence?', in Sparta, ed. Michael Whitby (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002), 141.
38. Stephen Hodkinson, 'Social Order and the Conflict of Values in Classical Sparta', in Sparta, ed. Michael Whitby (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002), 106.
39. Anton Powell, 'Mendacity and Sparta's Use of the Visual', in Classical Sparta: Techniques Behind Her Success, ed. Anton Powell (London: Routledge, 1989), 175.
40. UNEP, Global Environment Outlook: Environment for Development (GEO4).
41. See Rees, Our Final Century, 110-13 for some 'worst case' examples of human threats to the Earth.
42. Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia, 153.
43. John Tosh, The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (London: Longman, 1984), 9.
44. For a recent interpretation of this phenomenon see Tal Gilead, 'The Idea of Education for the Progress of Society: An Inquiry into its Consolidation in Eighteenth-Century French and British Educational Thought' (doctoral thesis, Institute of Education, University of London, 2006).
45. R.L. Archer, L.V.D. Owen and A.E. Chapman, The Teaching of History in Elementary Schools (London: A. & C. Black, 1916).
46. Department for Education and Employment, The English Education System: An Overview of Structure and Policy (London: DfEE, 1995), 1.
47. John White, What Schools Are For and Why (London: Philosophy Society of Great Britain, 2007), 26.
48. White, What Schools Are For and Why, 24-9.
49. White, What Schools Are For and Why, 46-8.
50. For a more extended historical analysis which concludes 'that roots of both the psychology of intelligence and the subject-based school curriculum are located in the same place - the world of Puritanism and its descendants', see John White, Intelligence, Destiny and Education: The Ideological Roots of Intelligence Testing (London: Routledge, 2006), 158.
51. White, What Schools Are For and Why, 26.
52. Concise Oxford Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), 1093.
53. Quoted in Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia, 148.
54. Alex MacGillivray, A Brief History of Globalization: The Untold Story of Our Incredible Shrinking Planet (London: Robinson, 2006), 18.
55. MacGillivray, A Brief History of Globalization, 21.
56. MacGillivray, A Brief History of Globalization, 21.
57. Lewis Smith, 'Damage to the Planet "is Already Inevitable"', The Times, September 19, 2007.
58. Aldrich, An Introduction to the History of Education, 9.
59. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 9. The term 'conscilience' appears to have been first employed by the English scholar, William Whewell (1794-1866).
60. Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education (London: Dent, 1963/1861), 6.
61. Spencer, Essays on Education, 9.
62. Spencer, Essays on Education, 14.
63. James L. Axtell, ed., The Educational Writings of John Locke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), 315-16.
64. Roger Deakin, Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007), 75.
65. See also Simon Fairlie, Low Impact Development: Planning and People in a Sustainable Countryside (Charlbury: Jon Carpenter, 1996). Fairlie, a former associate editor of the Ecologist and stonemason at Salisbury Cathedral, is the leading light behind Tinker's Bubble.
66. For a succinct corrective see Pervaiz Nazir, 'Globalization and the Environment: A View from the South', Cambridge 60 (2007): 30-31.
67. See the website http://www.3weec.org, and Walter Leal Filho and Mario Salomone, eds., Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), which contains some of the key papers.
68. Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (London: Phoenix, 2005), 1-2.
69. Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, 4.
70. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 9.