Ethical deliberations in environmental education workplaces: a case story of contextualised and personalised reflexivity

Lausanne L. Olvitt

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Ethical deliberations in environmental education workplaces: a case story of contextualised and personalised reflexivity

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Pages:: 105–120

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867578_0010

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This chapter explores the fluidity and complexity of individual ethical deliberations in an environmental education workplace and ‘teases out’ the associated learning processes. Based on the author’s recent doctoral research, the chapter tells the story of one South African environmental educator grappling with environmentoriented ethical tensions in his work. These tensions range from immediate officebased concerns such as paper wastage, to wider concerns such as lowering his carbon footprint through his choice of transport. The environmental educator has recently completed a one-year part-time course in environmental education. Does the course’s new capital of concepts and terminology influence his ethical deliberations? Does learning about environmental philosophies and other people’s ethical dilemmas support him to deepen his engagement with ethical tensions in his own work? The case study suggests that course-based learning processes are not especially influential until they interface with the multi-layered sociocultural and historical dynamics in work-based and home-based ethical deliberations. Deciding what is ‘right’, and then teaching others about that ‘rightness’ is not as simple as knowing the facts or norms, and acting on them. Past experiences, cultural norms, religious convictions, power gradients and even logistical constraints, all influence the nature and outcome of individual ethical deliberations, as do people’s future aspirations and their professional identities as environmental educators.

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Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 15 Nov 2012

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