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The frugal life and why we should educate for it

White, JP; (2021) The frugal life and why we should educate for it. London Review of Education , 19 (1) pp. 1-12. 10.14324/LRE.19.1.13. Green open access

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Abstract

The article begins with a fictional example of a life that has been spent frugally in several different ways and for different reasons over time: in wartime, through many decades of simple living, through a period marked by anxiety over the threat to future generations from the depletion of global resources and the climate crisis, to the COVID-19 emergency. The mini-biography serves as an introduction to a more systematic account of these various perspectives on frugality and reasons for adopting a frugal way of living. This provides the framework for a discussion of different aspects of education for frugality in the main body of the article. There are two brief sections at the end dealing, first, with a caveat about the climate change argument for education in frugality and, second, with wider issues that the topic raises.

Type: Article
Title: The frugal life and why we should educate for it
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/LRE.19.1.13
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.19.1.13
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 White. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: frugality, aims of education, justice, climate change
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10127735
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