Ecology Learning: Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life

Citation

(2007), "Ecology Learning: Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 18 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2007.08318dae.001

Ecology Learning: Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life

Ecology Learning: Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday LifeBy John Blewitt, EarthscanLondon2006224 pp.ISBN 1844072045US$39.95

Throughout life we learn, we develop meanings and connections, and we act. This book is an examination of how learning in everyday environments - business, work, home, community life - is key to improving society and achieving sustainability. The publication is useful to educators, teachers, corporate trainers and consultants working to integrate environmental education, sustainability and innovation in non-traditional learning situations. Some of the questions the book asks are: How can we understand and achieve sustainability? How can we re-school society towards sustainability?

The book also explores the possibilities for developing a sustainable society through “lifelong learning” - that is, learning that happens in everyday environments and activities as diverse as shopping, community, “edutainment”, information and communication technology, the internet, broadcasting, people’s experience of place and space, green building, social networks and consumer culture. Drawing on a range of sociological, anthropological and educational studies as well as new research, the book provides a broad trans-disciplinary understanding of the topic.