TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bonnett, Michael
Y1  - 2009/02//
IS  - 1
TI  - Systemic wisdom, the 'selving' of nature, and knowledge transformation: education for the 'greater whole'
KW  - nature
KW  -  systems thinking
KW  -  systemic wisdom
KW  -  self
KW  -  life-world
KW  -  knowledge
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10022137/
SP  - 39
VL  - 28
N2  - Considerations arising in the context of burgeoning concerns about the environment can provoke an exploration of issues that have significance both for environmental education in particular and education more generally. Notions of the ?greater whole? and ?systemic wisdom? that feature in some strands of environmental discourse are a case in point. It is argued that interpretations of these notions arising in currently influential scientific and systems thinking understandings of nature that attempt to overcome a corrosive separation of humankind and nature through a dilution or dismissal of the distinction between the human and non-human, self and other, require critical evaluation if they are not to bring their own dangers. Merleau-Pontian understandings of object constitution in a subjectively informed life-world and ideas of the ?selving? of natural things are drawn upon in developing a non-discursively grounded interpretation of systemic wisdom. The latter is taken to raise questions that have considerable transformative potential for conventional views of knowledge and its curriculum organisation.
AV  - public
EP  - 49
JF  - Studies in Philosophy and Education
N1  - The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
SN  - 0039-3746
ID  - discovery10022137
ER  -