Education, the Environment and Sustainability

Kai Horsthemke is Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His monographs include The Moral Status and Rights of Animals (2010), Animals and African Ethics (2015), Animal Rights Education (2018), Indigenous Knowledge: Philosophical and Educational Considerations (2021), and The Meaning of Death (forthcoming).

• Introduction: Education, the environment and sustainability 1. The task of education as we confront the potential for social and ecological collapse 2. ‘Landing on Earth’: An educational project for the present—A response to Vanessa Andreotti 3. Education, anthropocentrism, and interspecies sustainability: Confronting institutional anxieties in omnicidal times 4. Animal advocacy, fear and loathing in academia: A response to Helena Pedersen 5. Be the village: Exploring the ethics of having children 6. Got milk? From Growing strong bones to nurturing idealized subjectivities 7. Psychoanalytic ecofeminist Dorothy Dinnerstein: Theorizing the roots of rapacity 8. Educating in and for uncertainty: Climate science, human evolution and the legacy of Arne Naess as guidance for ecological practice 9. Co-creation in the commonwealth: Understanding right relationship in place 10. Youth power – youth movements: Myth, activism, and democracy 11. White, green futures 12. Spiritual exercises in times of climate change