The Significance of Myth for Environmental Education

Abstract:
It is almost universally acknowledged that we are at a tipping point in our environmental history. We are the inheritors of a post-industrial world that radically changed the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in nearly every continent of the globe. The continued negative effects of these industrial moments on our natural resources, habitats, and people — often the most indigent — are indisputable. Globally, we are aware of the need to maintain soil, water, and air purity from abuses attributed to fossil fuel use, and industrial and agrochemical practices (to name a few). Because of this, environmental education (EE) is more important now than ever. Recognizing the need for students to personally invest themselves in environmental stewardship, environmental educators have come to see the importance of offering students immersive experiences in nature in the hopes of generating desire for such personal action. Studies, such as the one done by Liefländera, Fröhlicha, Bognera, and Schultz (2013), have shown that immersive EE programs that help students to experience the natural world can be a powerful bridge to join theory and practice as students form personal bonds through their lived encounter with nature’s beauty and mystery. “The environment” should not remain a mere intellectual abstraction when students experience it. For EE to reach its goals of motivating students to personally care for the environment and act as stewards for its long-term flourishing, immersive experiences in nature are essential. This goal has motivated the likes of Pulkki, Dahlin, and Varri (2017) who recently argued for “the need to re-situate human beings in ecological terms”, which for them means re-situating “the human mind into the lived body and the human body into its surroundings” (217, emphasis added). They want to help students re-conceive their own self understanding in relationship with the natural world. Implicitly, their call to “re-situate” human beings suggests there exists diverse ways we might understand ourselves as human persons — that is to say that there are a diversity of anthropologies which, if made more explicit, would enable students to develop a new sense of how they ought to live in relationship with the natural world. Unfortunately, merely placing students in nature is often not enough to produce the personal bonds needed for environmental stewardship. The question is thus: how can we “prepare the soil”, as it were, for students’ intellectual, moral, and emotional experiences in nature to be something qualitatively richer? One can imagine students being placed in immersive experiences that, rather than being transformed by them, can occasion resentment for the intrusion of their time or annoyance for being removed from their everyday conveniences. Following the work of Martha Nussbaum (1990, 1995), I want to examine the ways stories can serve to catalyze student s moral and ethical imagination in ways that help prepare them intellectually and affectively for environmentally immersive experiences. Nussbaum s argument that story plays a critical role in civic engagement is compelling and I want to apply her work particularly to the context of EE. In doing so, I hope to show that certain kinds of stories — namely, myths — have a unique power to shape the character and quality of students’ immersive experiences in nature because of their power to transform their self-perception (role and responsibility) in relationship with the environment. To defend this thesis, I will begin by examining the way several important voices in the EE literature conceive of the human-environmental relationship and the importance they place on immersive
Author Listing: Matthew R. Farrelly
Volume: 53
Pages: 127-144
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.12315
Language: English
Journal: Journal of Philosophy of Education

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