Regenerative Learning – With a Foreword by H.H. Pope Francis

With a Foreword by H.H. Pope Francis

• Published in the U.K: on October the 15th, 2022 at the Great Hall, Dartington, Totnes, Devon: https://www.dartington.org/; over 100 people participated, coming for the book launch from as far afield as Germany, India, Italy, and the USA!
• Canada & USA Publication Date: TBC
• Rest of the World Publcation Date: TBC

Published for the 30^th anniversary of Schumacher College, U.K., this is an outstanding collection of essays on a subject of urgent importance for our world, afflicted as it is by climate change, inequality, mass disadvantage, and pandemics.

The editors are:

– Lorna Howarth who has worked in related fields for decades

and

– Satish Kumar, Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist and author of many books – most recently, Elegant Simplicity – and the Founder of Schumacher College, U.K.

Originally established as a Western equivalent of Shantiniketan, the learning environment pioneered by the Nobel Prize-winning Indian educationist and writer, Rabindranath Tagore, and of the learning environment pioneered in his ashrams by the leader of India’s freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi.

The College is synonymous with the effort to create a model of learning that develops alumni who have the skills and passions that will make the contemporary world a better place.

Not surprising, then, that the essential message of this book is that we need to abandon the evolutionary perspective on education which places humans at the top of the tree to exploit and despoil everything below us.

We need to replace it with an ethical and ecological education which teaches us responsibility and stewardship in relation to all of humanity and in relation to all of nature.

Eminent contributors include: Fritjof Capra, Vandana Shiva, David Orr, Charles Eisenstein, Günter Pauli, Anthony Seldon, Jon Alexander, Alan Boldon, Pavel Cenkl, Lauren Elizabeth Clare, Joseph Bharat Cornell, Guy Dauncey, Alan Dyer, Natalia Eernstman, Guillem Ferrer, Herbert Girardet, Donald Gray, Stephan Harding, Ina Matijevic, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Dana Littlepage Smith, Isabel Losada, Thakur S Powdyel, Stephen Sterling, and Colin Tudge.

Publicity: expected in international and national media, as well as in specialist educational media, and in thought-leadership podcasts and vlogs.

Formats: UK “B” Format; ebook

CATEGORY: Education, Ecology

BIC: JMRL, JNA, JNF, JNP

BISAC Codes: EDU000000, EDU003000, EDU034000, EDU040000

THEMA Codes: JNA, JNF.

The book is hardback, 135 x 216 mm, has 324 pages, and the price is £25.

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