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(2010) Cultural studies and environmentalism, Dordrecht, Springer.
We begin this section on ecojustice by acknowledging that schooling is a very small part of the larger educational domain. As students sit at their desks or at lab benches learning about science and how to do science, they get merely a glimpse of the world at large. This world is the setting for a 'science" inseparable from the lives of men and women in every cultural, ethnic, racial, and national milieu. Moreover, it is a science inseparable from the lives of animal and plant species, embedded in the strata of robust geology. Children are pure witnesses to this Nature breathed in and breathed out, their hands in the muck, their minds and bodies affected by the minutiae of environmental toxins and nurturing chemicals. Our Nature is a world of ecologies in which we humans are situated, withstanding rationalities which create mindful tolerances of epistemic separation until Earth gives way to our abstractions.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3929-3_2
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Mueller, M. P. , Tippins, D. J. (2010)., Nurturing morally defensible environmentalism, in D. J. Tippins, M. P. Mueller, M. Van Eijck & J. D. Adams (eds.), Cultural studies and environmentalism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 7-10.
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