Education and the End of Times
Education has an important responsibility to preserve and protect a future. Even when concerned with the past, for example through history education (and history of education), education aims to preserve the past and carry it forward into an unknown future. Often education is tasked with changing t...
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| Language: | English |
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Brock University
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.brocku.ca/brocked/index.php/home/article/view/1003 |
| Summary: | Education has an important responsibility to preserve and protect a future. Even when concerned with the past, for example through history education (and history of education), education aims to preserve the past and carry it forward into an unknown future. Often education is tasked with changing the future, currently most apparent in the field of environmental education, where education is asked to inform the next generation about the threats we are facing, encourage new values regarding nature, and initiate political changes towards that environmental stewardship. A century ago, people could not have anticipated the threat of nuclear war or climate change. What new risks might emerge in the future? What is the best way to ensure that education contributes to the preservation of our world in the face of any number of possible future scenarios?
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| ISSN: | 1183-1189 2371-7750 |